Aleksei Nikolaev v. Ekaterina Nikolaeva

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: April 16, 2025
• Docket: 3D2025-0034
• Status: Published

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed April 16, 2025. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D25-0034 Lower Tribunal No. 23-18636-FC-04 ________________

Aleksei Nikolaev, Appellant,

vs.

Ekaterina Nikolaeva, Appellee.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jason Emilios Dimitris, Judge.

Aleksei Nikolaev, in proper person.

Ekaterina Nikolaeva, in proper person.

Before LINDSEY, GORDO and GOODEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM. The Appellant Aleksei Nikolaev challenges the trial court’s final order

of dissolution adopting the general magistrate’s recommended order and the

general magistrate’s factual findings. Because we find the Appellant did not

demonstrate reversible error, we affirm. See Applegate v. Barnett Bank of

Tallahassee, 377 So. 2d 1150, 1152 (Fla. 1979) (“Without a record of the

trial proceedings, the appellate court can not properly resolve the underlying

factual issues so as to conclude that the trial court’s judgment is not

supported by the evidence or by an alternative theory. Without knowing the

factual context, neither can an appellate court reasonably conclude that the

trial judge so misconceived the law as to require reversal.”); Diaz v. Diaz,

152 So. 3d 743, 744 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014) (“In the absence of a transcript of

the final hearing or a statement of the evidence prepared in accordance with

Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200, we are unable to evaluate the

former husband’s arguments that the award of any durational alimony was

erroneous and that the equitable distribution of the former husband’s bank

account was unsupported by the record.”).

Affirmed.