Sylvester v. Sylvester

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ. BURKE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Laurence Sylvester, plaintiff below, appeals from superior court Judge Victor D. Carlson’s order striking a mortgage executed by Sylvester in favor of First Financial Futures Corporation (“FFFC”). Judge Carlson found that the mortgage violated his earlier orders not to permit recording of any encumbrances on Sylvester’s property and constituted a fraudulent conveyance. On appeal, Sylvester directs the thrust of his attack at the court’s “unseemly haste” in allowing a hearing only four…