If you are involved in Florida probate litigation, most likely your estate attorneys have, as part of their litigation strategy, the Florida appeals process. What if you win but the other side appeals your estate lawsuit? What if you lose: did you preserve the errors for appeal? In Palm Beach probate circles,Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeal handles the appeals in Broward, Palm Beach and Martin Counties for estate, trust, & guardianship appeals. So, what can you learn from a recent, February 17, 2016 4th DCA appellate decision called Salituri v. Salituri? Well, this is actually not a probate case. It is a family law or divorce appeal Florida. We all know that divorce law in Florida, and divorce trials, are often the subject of appeals, kind of like summary judgments: they seem to always be the subject of a written appellate opinion. So, here are a few things which you, a Florida estate lawyer, or a client who is in the middle of an estate lawsuit Boca Raton, can learn from this recent 4th DCA opinion, regarding a final judgment which was REVERSED and sent back down to the Broward County trial court. Here is a copy of this 4th DCA, Florida, appeals decision: http://4dca.org/opinions/Feb%202016/02-17-16/4D15-1258.op.pdf