Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

325 So. 2d 12

Docket No. 75-652.

Sheehy v. Sheehy

Carolyn Patricia Blanco SHEEHY, Appellant, v. Ronald John SHEEHY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 12, 1975.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1975-12-12

Relies on 197 So. 2d 570 - Lee v. Kepler · Bate v. Cook · 295 So. 2d 328 - Rodriguez v. Rodriguez

Decided 1975-12-12

¶1Robert C. Gibbons and Philip R. Lazzara of Gibbons, Tucker, McEwen, Smith, Cofer & Taub, Tampa, for appellant.

¶2Richard H. McInnis, Tampa, for appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4Appellant-mother, having been awarded permanent child custody by a final judgment of dissolution of marriage, appeals from a modification of that judgment which awards certain visitation rights to the paternal grandparents. We reverse.

¶5An order granting visitation rights to a non-parent of a child whose custody has been awarded to a fit parent is unjustified and unenforceable.[1] In view whereof, the order appealed from is, in this regard, reversed. In all other respects it is affirmed.

¶6McNULTY, C.J., and BOARDMAN and GRIMES, JJ., concur.

NOTES

¶7[1] See Parker v. Gates (1925), 89 Fla. 76, 103 So. 126; Rodriguez v. Rodriguez (Fla.App. 3rd, 1974), 295 So.2d 328; Lee v. Kepler (Fla.App.3rd, 1967), 197 So.2d 570.

/325/so2d/12 · .json · Public domain