KING v. JORDAN

No. 2D02-2681.

850 So.2d 645 (2003)

Carolyn Alfreda KING, Appellant, v. Ralph JORDAN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 25, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D.C. Newton, II, Tallahassee; Philip A. McLeod, St. Petersburg; and Peter R. Wallace of Skelton, Willis, Bennett & Wallace, LLP, St. Petersburg, for Appellant.

Jane H. Grossman of Law Office of Jane H. Grossman, St. Petersburg, for Appellee.


SCHEB, JOHN M., Senior Judge.

Carolyn Alfreda King, the mother, contends that because the order granting custody of the parties' daughter to the father, Ralph Jordan, was entered in a dependency proceeding under chapter 39, Florida Statutes (1999), the trial court erred in applying the "extraordinary burden test" set forth in Gibbs v. Gibbs, 686 So.2d 639 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996), in adjudicating her petition seeking primary residential...

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