Patterson v. Patterson

This is an appeeal from a denial of a post-divorce petition seeking a change in the custody of minor children from the mother to the petitioning father. Finding no abuse of discretion, we affirm.

The evidence is without substantial conflict. The mother remarried shortly after the divorce. Her present husband is unemployed, except for a weekend bartending job. He suffers from phlebitis. She has worked and made the family’s living most of the time. They have moved several times, living for a time in Pensacola, Florida, where they took the children with permission of the court. When they returned…