Jackson v. Jackson

How frail is appellate justice and how dependent on the respective value systems of the three judges who sit on a case! Had Judge Anstead been able to persuade one other member of the panel in Schroeder v. Schroeder, 430 So.2d 604 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983), to join him, the conclusion of this court in that case would have been turned around 180 degrees. Instead, two members construed section 48.193, Florida Statutes (1983) in a way that could reasonably be interpreted, to quote the dissent,

“to favor desertion and nonsupport and to encourage Florida husbands to see ex parte divorces in foreign…