Natkow v. Natkow

After expressly acknowledging the supreme court’s holding in Mendez-Perez v. Perez-Perez, 656 So.2d 458 (Fla.1995) that the 1993 amendment to Rule 1.540(b), Fla. R.Civ.P. which eliminated the one year time limitation to challenge financial affidavits filed in dissolution proceedings is not retroactive, the majority nevertheless goes on to retroactively apply the amendment to a 1992 dissolution judgment. Because I believe that the majority’s holding is directly contrary to the supreme court’s holding in Mendez-Perez, and impermissibly overrules the same, Hoffman v. Jones, 280 So.2d 431…