Whitmer v. Whitmer

VAN der VOORT, Judge.

Appellant brings this action for partition of jointly owned personal property located in Pennsylvania. Her claim to the property rests upon a judgment awarding *465her this property interest as “lump sum alimony” in a Florida divorce action. Appellee’s defense is a collateral attack on the Florida judgment as having been entered without due process of law and without jurisdiction over the Pennsylvania property.

The parties were married in Pennsylvania in 1946 and lived in this state until 1971 when appellant moved to Florida and established her domicile there. Appellee resides…