DYKES v. DYKES

No. 79-2.

395 So.2d 188 (1981)

Diana Christine DYKES, Appellant, v. Roger Francis DYKES, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied March 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis B. Burch, J. Edward Davis and J. Calvin Jenkins, Jr., of Weinberg & Green, Baltimore, Md., and Kenneth A. Studstill, Titusville, for appellant.

Kenneth W. McIntosh of Stenstrom, Davis, McIntosh & Julian, and Marcia K. Lippincott, Sanford, for appellee.


ORFINGER, Judge.

Appellant questions a final judgment in a dissolution proceeding awarding custody of the young child of the marriage to the father. We affirm.

Appellant raises three points on appeal: (1) did the trial court abuse its discretion in awarding custody to the father instead of to the mother, (2) did the court have jurisdiction to make a custody award under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act,1 and (3) was there...

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