IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FIFTH DISTRICT
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
SYLVIA G. WALTERS,
Appellant,
v. Case No. 5D14-2810
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC, ET AL.,
Appellees.
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Opinion filed December 18, 2015
Appeal from the Circuit Court
for Marion County,
Frances S. King, Judge.
Gregg M. Horowitz, Sarasota, for Appellant.
Sara F. Holladay-Tobias, Emily Y. Rottman,
and C. Harold Houston, III, Jacksonville, for
Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Sylvia Walters appeals a final judgment of foreclosure entered in favor of
Nationstar Mortgage, LLC (“Nationstar”). She argues that Nationstar failed to establish
that Aurora, Nationstar’s predecessor in interest, had standing to bring the foreclosure
action. We agree and reverse the judgment under review. See McLean v. JP Morgan
Chase Bank Nat’l Ass’n, 79 So. 3d 170, 173-74 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012) (holding that “a
party’s standing is determined at the time the lawsuit was filed” and that “[w]here the
plaintiff contends that its standing to foreclose derives from an endorsement of the note,
the plaintiff must show that the endorsement occurred prior to the inception of the lawsuit.”
(citing Progressive Exp. Ins. Co. v. McGrath Cmty. Chiropractic, 913 So. 2d 1281, 1286
(Fla. 2d DCA 2005))). Accordingly, we reverse the judgment under review and remand
this case to the trial court to enter an order of involuntary dismissal of the action. See
Schmidt v. Deutsche Bank, 170 So. 3d 938, 942 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015) (“Because Bank
failed to establish standing at the time of filing of the complaint, we reverse and remand
for entry of a final order of involuntary dismissal of the action.”).
REVERSED and REMANDED with directions.
SAWAYA and ORFINGER, JJ., and TYNAN, G.A., Associate Judge, concur.
