MAINSTER v. MAINSTER

No. 84-1842.

466 So.2d 1228 (1985)

Jessie Allen MAINSTER, Appellant, v. Mary V. MAINSTER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Levingston Schockett, P.A., Miami, and Joseph Segor, Miami, for appellant.

James D. Sloan of Luckey, Elver & Sloan, LaBelle, for appellee.


FRANK, Judge.

Our focus in this appeal is on the proper forum for adjudication of the custody of the parties' minor child, Tiffany Mainster. The Mainsters, who were living in North Carolina, separated in 1981 when the wife brought her daughter to Florida. Tiffany lived in this state until June of 1983 — first with her mother and then with her paternal grandparents — when her paternal grandfather took her to Virginia to live with her father. There she...

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