Rodriguez v. Nasrallah

BENTON, Judge.

Haydee Rodriguez appeals the summary final judgment dismissing the suit she brought against her former husband, Alfred Nasrallah, in order to enforce in Florida a judgment she obtained in Puerto Rico. The trial court declined to give the foreign judgment effect, while conceding that “it appears that the Superior Court [of Puerto Rico] had jurisdiction to enter the instant judgment.” (The jurisdictional question was itself litigated in Puerto Rico, and became the subject of a final judgment entered there.) In the circumstances, we believe that a federal statute requires that we…