Lafkas

The family law court bifurcated issues involving division of disputed assets between husband and wife. Following the bifurcated trial, the trial court entered its ruling, generally resolving issues in favor of the wife. Husband filed a notice of appeal from the order on the bifurcated issue, without obtaining a certificate of probable cause from the trial court and without moving in this court to appeal on a bifurcated issue. We lack jurisdiction to consider this appeal in the absence of a certificate of probable cause and an order from this court allowing the appeal on the bifurcated issue. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

Husband John Lafkas and wife Jean Lafkas separated in 1996 after six years of marriage. Marital status was terminated in 2001, although the *1432 division of assets remained to be resolved. In 2003, the family law court bifurcated trial on one of the extant property issues—whether husband’s interest in Smile Enterprises, a partnership established in 1971 by husband and two partners, was husband’s separate property. In a 2005 order entitled “Further Judgment On Bifurcated Issue Of Characterization Of The Parties’ Interest In Smile Enterprises,”…