Case Name: Joseph T. PARISI, Petitioner, v. Honorable James R. STEWART, Jr., Circuit Judge, 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach, Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-06-27
Citations: 563 So. 2d 206
Docket Number: No. 90-0753
Parties: Joseph T. PARISI, Petitioner, v. Honorable James R. STEWART, Jr., Circuit Judge, 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach, Florida, Respondent.
Judges: HERSEY, C.J., and GUNTHER and WARNER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 563
Pages: 206–207

Head Matter:
Joseph T. PARISI, Petitioner, v. Honorable James R. STEWART, Jr., Circuit Judge, 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach, Florida, Respondent.
No. 90-0753.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
June 27, 1990.
Richard W. Schlorff, II, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.
Mark D. Ewart, West Palm Beach, for respondent-Suzzette Reitz.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petition for writ of prohibition is denied. While Broward County, the county of divorce, may have had initial jurisdiction to modify a custody award, see Wells v. Ward, 314 So.2d 138 (Fla.1975), by order some years ago it agreed to change venue and transfer the case to Palm Beach County for the convenience of the parties, who are both residents of Palm Beach County now, as is HRS, which oversees child support collection. As the Third District pointed out most recently in Torres v. Torres, 561 So.2d 1310 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990), Wells does not prevent a court from transferring venue to a different court when justice would so indicate. What Wells prohibits is a "new" circuit taking jurisdiction ab initio of a custody proceeding which was already determined in another circuit. Since the cause was transferred by an order of Bro-ward County dated March 29, 1988, the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit has jurisdiction to act in this matter.
HERSEY, C.J., and GUNTHER and WARNER, JJ., concur.