CARR v. PHILLIPS

No. 88-2041.

540 So.2d 168 (1989)

John H. CARR, Appellant, v. Veronica K. PHILLIPS, a/K/a Veronica P. Bethea, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 15, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald M. Zakarin of Schwartz, Gold and Cohen, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellant.

Daye B. Sammons, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


LETTS, Judge.

Before us is yet another custody battle, this time involving a father who now seeks custody of his five-year-old daughter, originally awarded to the unwed mother at the conclusion of a paternity suit. See § 744.301(1), Fla. Stat. (1987). The trial judge held that the father had not established that it would be in the best interests of the child to modify custody and had failed to show a substantial change in circumstances. We reverse...

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