201 So. 2d 638 - Hoffman v. Linley’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘ * * * But it is likewise the law that a decree in a divorce suit, fixing the custody of a child of the parents being divorced, whether based on a stipulation entered into by the parties and approved by the court, or whether entered by the court after adversary hearing and determination of a contested issue respecting the matter, is nevertheless a final decree of the court on the conditions then existing, and is not to be materially amended or changed afterward, unless on altered conditions shown to have arisen since the decree, or because of material facts bearing on the question of custody and existing at the time of the decree, but which were unknown to the court and then only for the welfare of the child. * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 244 So. 2d 518 - Bruggisser v. Bruggisser

2. ““In seeking to regain the custody granted her by the final decree, against the husband holding custody under a post decree modification order, the appellee wife was not faced with the burden of showing unfitness of the husband or that his stewardship of the children is improper, as would have been required of her had the husband been awarded the custody of the children in the final decree of divorce. See Frazier v. Frazier, 109 Fla. 164 , 147 So. 464, 465 ; Belford v. Belford, 159 Fla. 547 , 32 So.2d 312, 314 ; Ritsi v. Ritsi, Fla.App.1964, 160 So.2d 159, 163 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 273 So. 2d 785 - Chesser v. Chesser