Whitney Bank v. Lorant

I respectfully dissent. Under Florida law, the judgment domesticated here was final, and the “‘validity and effect of a foreign judgment ... are to be determined by the law of the state in which [the judgment] was rendered.’ ” Teng v. Diplomat Nat’l Bank, 431 So.2d 1202, 1203 (Ala.1983) (quoting Morse v. Morse, 394 So.2d 950, 951 (Ala.1981)).

Rather than applying Florida law, the trial court used an Alabama procedural rule, namely, Rule 54(b), Ala. R. Civ. P., to determine that the Florida judgment was a nonfinal judgment.1 Although § 6-9-232, Ala.Code 1975, a portion of the Uniform…