Busman v. STATE, DEPT. OF REVENUE

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• expressing this court's `aversion' to having issues of parental rights decided on a default basis
• reversing trial court and holding that father was not properly served pursuant to substituted service of process; father presented clear, convincing and uncontrovert-ed evidence that address was not his “usual place of abode”
• requiring 11 The statute previously required substitute service on “some person of the family over fifteen years of age.” See Wakeman v. Farish, 356 So. 2d 1323, 1324 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978) (quoting Fla. Stat. § 48.031 (1975)
• return of service was regular on its face and therefore presumptively valid; defendant thus had burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that he was not served at his usual place of abode

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