Goldstein v. Goldstein’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “Although the minor's preference is never controlling, the desire of a strapping six-foot boy of high school age should be given great weight... . It is our opinion that the passage of time has wrought such a change of conditions as to justify the application of the almost universal rule that the Court where the minor is found may make an interlocutory order when intervention is necessary for the welfare of the child. This child is passing through a crucial period. His immediate welfare is at stake. Indeed, the course of his life may be affected adversely by a refusal of the Florida Courts to consider his unquestioned preference. He has reached an age when, unperturbed, he should have and exercise reasonable discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 292 So. 2d 47 - Taylor v. Schilt

2. “"`"[I]t is . . . the law that a decree in a divorce suit, fixing the custody of a child of the parents being divorced, . . . is . . . 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 *Page 160 for the welfare of the child. * * *"'" (Bruggisser v. Bruggisser , Fla.App., 244 So.2d 518 , 521 , quoting from Frazier v. Frazier , 109 Fla. 164 , 147 So. 464 , 465 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 341 So. 2d 156 - Speed v. Speed