Ex Parte P.G.B.

MADDOX, Justice.

This is a child custody modification case. The issue presented is whether the Court of Civil Appeals, 600 So.2d 256, erred in reversing the trial court’s judgment that changed custody of the child from the mother to the father.

Under the terms of a 1988 divorce judgment, which was substantially based upon a settlement agreement between the parties, S.B., the mother, obtained custody of her child, R.P.B., then one and one-half years old. Two years later, she filed a petition to modify the divorce judgment to increase the father’s child support payments. The father, P.G.B.,…