Kaaa v. Kaaa

WALLACE, Judge.

Katherine Kaaa (the Wife) raises a single issue in her appeal from the final judgment that dissolved her marriage to Joseph Kaaa (the Husband). She challenges the trial court’s denial of her claim to a portion of the passive appreciation in the Husband’s nonmarital real property, even though the mortgage debt encumbering the property was paid with marital funds throughout the course of the parties’ twenty-seven-year marriage. Because the trial court correctly applied this court’s decision in Mitchell v. Mitchell, 841 So.2d 564 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003), in disposing of the Wife’s…