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202 So. 3d 908

Claflin v. Claflin

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 28, 2016

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2016-09-28

Relies on 857 So. 2d 207 - ENVIRONMENTAL CONFED. OF SOUTHWEST FL., INC. v. IMC Phosphates, Inc. · 167 So. 3d 500 - State v. Florida Workers' Advocates

Decided 2016-09-28

SHEPHERD, J.

¶1Catherine Claflin seeks a writ prohibiting further proceedings in this dissolution of marriage case, which she and her husband recently voluntarily dismissed. Prior to the voluntary dismissal, the trial court granted MSP Recovery Services, LLC, the *909right to intervene in the action to assert its claim to a portion of any equitable distribution to the wife of any interest in MSP Recovery. MSP Recovery contends that its claim as intervenor survived the voluntary dismissal of the case. MSP Recovery is incorrect.

¶2As this Court stated in State v. Florida Workers’ Advocates, 167 So.3d 500, 505-06 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015), “the rights of an intervenor are conditional in that they exist only so long as the litigation continues between the parties.” (quoting Envtl. Confed’n of Sw. Fla. v. IMC Phosphates, Inc., 857 So.2d 207, 211 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003)). Therefore, MSP Recovery’s claims did not survive the parties’ voluntary dismissal of the dissolution of marriage action. The trial court is enjoined and prohibited from conducting further proceedings in this case.

¶3Petition granted; writ withheld.

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