Jacquot v. Jacquot

Appellant, David Jacquot, appeals the order denying his Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.540(b)(3) motion for relief from the final judgment of injunction for protection against domestic violence entered against him. The trial court denied the motion without an evidentiary hearing, determining the motion to be moot because the injunction had previously expired by its own terms. Because the expiration of an injunction for protection against domestic violence is one of the recognized exceptions to the dismissal of a moot case, we reverse.

The definition of when a case or issue is moot and the…