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· 5/7/1980

Groover v. Groover

Citations

  • 383 So. 2d 280

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that where there is no valid marriage, a trial court in a purported dissolution proceeding cannot obtain subject matter jurisdiction
  • holding that where there was no valid marriage because the wife never divorced her first husband, “the court never acquired jurisdiction over the subject matter and its final judgment of divorce [was] void”

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Judges: Per Curiam

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