113 So. 2d 232 - Eades v. Dorio’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““The Supreme Court has stated that it is always reluctant to reverse an order of a chancellor concerning custody, and in the few instances that such orders have been reversed, it has been only upon the showing of a clear abuse of the chancellor’s discretion. “The Supreme Court stated in Grant v. Corbitt, Fla.1957, 95 So.2d 25, 28 , in upholding the award of custody to an aunt but without prejudice to the right of the mother to petition for custody at a future time: “ ‘ * * * We are fully cognizant of the rights of a natural parent to the custody of his or her child and subscribe to the oft-stated rule that, all things being equal, the natural parent has the superior right of custody as against relatives or other third persons. Nor have we overlooked the rule that the rights of the parents will not be disregarded “in order to gratify the mere wishes of a child, when the parent or guardian is a proper person to be intrusted with its custody.” Marshall v. Reams, 32 Fla. 499 , 14 So. 95 . But this court cannot, in any type of case, overturn the decision of a Chancellor made in the exercise of his judicial discretion in the absence of a clear showing of an abuse thereof; and, in a child custody case, the opportunity of the Chancellor to observe the demeanor and personalities of the parties and their witnesses and to feei forces, powers and influences that can not be discerned by merely reading the record, assumes a new importance because of the many intangibles that must be evalua”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 119 So. 2d 819 - Bouchard v. Bouchard