Dressler v. Dressler

This is a petition for prohibition from a pending dissolution of marriage case scheduled to begin trial in two days. The husband argues that the trial court lacks subject matter jurisdiction because — • as he puts it — “the parties were never legally married.” He claims the only evidence of a marriage is an “unnotarized, unexecuted, unrecorded, unsealed, and unauthorized photocopy of a purported marriage record.”

Actually, at a hearing on his motion to dismiss the case, the court received several documents in evidence. Petitioner offered records from the Martin County Clerk of the Court and…