Palihawadange Fernando v. Martha Gay Weaver Sapukotana

KING, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The present case calls upon this Court to determine the validity of a Florida divorce decree issued in 1995. Sarath Sapukotana (Sarath) and Palihawadanage Ramya Chandralatha Fernando (Fernando) were married in Sri Lanka in 1992. Sarath moved to the United States a year later. In 1995, a Florida court entered an uncontested divorce decree, dissolving the marriage of Sarath and Fernando. In 2004, Sarath then married Martha Gay Weaver Sapukotana (Martha) in Mississippi. Sarath died intestate in 2008 from injuries which led to a wrongful death suit. The'trial…