Mercer v. Mercer

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Gary Mercer and appellee Betty Ruth Von Demfange, nee Mercer, were divorced in 1982. The divorce decree was entered in the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida. Custody of the parties’ two children was awarded to the father and mother jointly. Jurisdiction was retained, however, “for the possible entry of any future orders related to child support, custody and property.”

Within a few months of the entry of the divorce decree, the mother took the children without permission to Douglas County, Georgia. When the father…