Woods v. Woods

We affirm in all respects, except we comment on two issues not raised by either party. Although we applaud the trial court’s efforts to expeditiously resolve cases, we discourage the practice of bifurcating the issues in dissolution of marriage cases and in entering hand written judgments on those issues. As this court stated in Weasel v. Weasel, 419 So.2d 698, 699 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982), “[a] trial court has the power to bifurcate. However, such procedure should be employed with caution and will be the exception rather than the rule.” See also Claughton v. Claughton, 393 So.2d 1061, 1062…