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561 So. 2d 1

Docket No. 89-01861.

Potter v. Haffner

Irene L. POTTER F/K/a Irene L. Haffner, Appellant, v. Michael P. HAFFNER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided March 23, 1990.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1990.

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District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1990-03-23

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2003

5 state decisions

Relies on 132 So. 2d 456 - Scheer v. Scheer · 245 So. 2d 658 - Longo v. Longo · 472 So. 2d 843 - Palmore v. Sidoti

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Decided 1990-03-23

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¶1*2 Michael L. Hastings of Battaglia, Ross, Hastings and Dicus, P.A., St. Petersburg, for appellant.

¶2Jack Helinger of Louderback, McCoun & Helinger, St. Petersburg, for appellee.

¶3LEHAN, Acting Chief Judge.

¶4In this custody dispute following the divorce of the parties in Florida we decline to reverse an order which effected the transfer of custody of a minor child, who was with his mother in Arizona, to his father in Florida "until further order of this [trial] court." Consistent with what we perceive as the trial court's intent, we direct that such custody be temporary and that the mother be given at a very early date upon her motion the opportunity to be heard as to permanent custody. See Longo v. Longo,245 So.2d 658, 660 (Fla. 4th DCA 1971); Scheer v. Scheer,132 So.2d 456, 458 (Fla. 3d DCA 1961).

¶5Our ruling is not to be taken as an expression as to who is or was entitled to custody and is principally in recognition that an additional transfer of custody before this matter is resolved would not appear to be in the child's best interests. Cf. Palmore v. Sidoti,472 So.2d 843, 846-47 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985).

¶6PARKER and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.

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