GIBBS v. GIBBS

No. 96-01231.

686 So.2d 639 (1996)

Karie Lynn GIBBS, Appellant, v. Raymond Lemoyne GIBBS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Hoft, Jr., Tampa, for Appellant.

Richard S. Pipkin, Sebring, for Appellee.


ALTENBERND, Acting Chief Judge.

Karie Lynn Gibbs appeals an order shifting primary residential custody of her eleven-year-old son to his father, Raymond Lemoyne Gibbs. We reverse because the father failed to meet the extraordinary burden necessary to support a postdissolution change of custody. Standing alone, the fact that a male infant grows into a young man and develops an interest in sports is not the type of extraordinary circumstance that authorizes a court...

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