Bassett v. Brown

RUSSELL, Judge.

The parties were divorced in January 1979, and custody of their daughter was awarded to the mother. In May 1991 the father filed a petition to modify the divorce decree, requesting that custody of the daughter, then 14 years old, be transferred to him. Following ore tenus proceedings, the trial court denied his petition.

The father appeals, contending that the trial court erred in finding that he did not meet the requirements to change the daughter’s custody. We affirm.

The moving party’s burden in a child custody modification case is set out in Ex parte McLendon, 455 So.2d 863…