Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Gonzalez

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

The plaintiff appeals from an order quashing substituted service of process secured, purportedly under section 48.031(1)(a), Florida Statutes (2006),1 by leaving a copy of the summons and complaint at her home with a woman who was the mother of one defendant and the mother-in-law of the other. The trial court’s ruling was correct and is affirmed because an undisputed affidavit demonstrated that neither of the defendants had lived at that address for five years, and thus that it was not their “usual place of abode” as the statute requires. See State ex rel. Merritt v.…