Legal Opinion

Rothschild v. Rothschild

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 23, 1974No. 73-128Published

1Opinion of the Court

MANN, Chief Judge.

The commendable industry of appellant’s counsel has brought up for reconsideration the question whether a husband who is head of a family may gratuitously transfer to himself and his wife as tenants by the entirety the family home. The transmutation of Article X, § 1 of the Florida Constitution of 1885, F.S.A., from a safeguard against improvident alienation into a restraint on alienation has been criticized by Mr. Justice Terrell, dissenting in Florida Nat. Bank of Jacksonville v. Winn, 1947, 158 Fla. 750, 30 So.2d 298, and by Crosby and Miller in their seminal article, Our…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Jackson v. JacksonSupreme Court of Florida · 1925
  2. Nelson v. HainlinSupreme Court of Florida · 1925
  3. National Bank of Jacksonville v. WinnSupreme Court of Florida · 1947
  4. Jahn v. PurvisSupreme Court of Florida · 1940

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