Tigran Abrahamyan v. Lilya Arakelyan

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: April 30, 2025
• Docket: 3D2024-0197
• Status: Published

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed April 30, 2025. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D24-0197 Lower Tribunal No. 21-15708 ________________

Tigran Abrahamyan, Appellant,

vs.

Lilya Arakelyan, Appellee.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Oscar Rodriguez-Fonts, Judge.

Tigran Abrahamyan, in proper person.

Lilya Arakelyan, in proper person.

Before FERNANDEZ, MILLER, and BOKOR, JJ.

PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See § 61.075(7), Fla. Stat. (2023) (“The cut-off date for

determining assets and liabilities to be identified or classified as marital

assets and liabilities is the earliest of the date the parties enter into a valid

separation agreement, such other date as may be expressly established by

such agreement, or the date of the filing of a petition for dissolution of

marriage. The date for determining value of assets and the amount of

liabilities identified or classified as marital is the date or dates as the judge

determines is just and equitable under the circumstances.”); § 55.605(2)(j),

Fla. Stat. (2023) (including due process among grounds for nonrecognition

of a foreign judgment); Aills v. Boemi, 29 So. 3d 1105, 1108–09 (Fla. 2010)

(finding issues not raised in trial court are not preserved for appellate review);

Mulligan v. State Farm Fla. Ins. Co., 127 So. 3d 852, 853 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013)

(noting appellant waived argument on appeal by failing to present or

preserve issue in the trial court); Canakaris v. Canakaris, 382 So. 2d 1197,

1203 (Fla. 1980) (“The discretionary ruling of the trial judge should be

disturbed only when his decision fails to satisfy this test of reasonableness.”);

§ 61.075(8), Fla. Stat. (“All assets acquired and liabilities incurred by either

spouse subsequent to the date of the marriage and not specifically

established as nonmarital assets or liabilities are presumed to be marital

assets and liabilities.”); § 61.08(2), Fla. Stat. (2022) (explaining factors trial

2 court can consider when awarding alimony); § 61.16(1), Fla. Stat. (2023)

(“The court may from time to time, after considering the financial resources

of both parties, order a party to pay a reasonable amount for attorney's fees,

suit money, and the cost to the other party of maintaining or defending any

proceeding under this chapter . . . .”); Rosen v. Rosen, 696 So. 2d 697, 700

(Fla. 1997) (“[S]ection 61.16 should be liberally—not restrictively—construed

to allow consideration of any factor necessary to provide justice and ensure

equity between the parties.”).