Case Name: Victoria BLACKWOOD, Appellant, v. Alexander ANDERSON, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-12-01
Citations: 664 So. 2d 37
Docket Number: No. 95-471
Parties: Victoria BLACKWOOD, Appellant, v. Alexander ANDERSON, Appellee.
Judges: GOSHORN J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 664
Pages: 37–39

Head Matter:
Victoria BLACKWOOD, Appellant, v. Alexander ANDERSON, Appellee.
No. 95-471.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Dec. 1, 1995.
William R. Clifton and Joan H. Bickerstaff of Joan H. Bickerstaff, P.A., Melbourne, for Appellant.
No Appearance for Appellee.

Opinion:
DAUKSCH, Judge.
This is an appeal from an order awarding child custody.
The parties are the unmarried parents of two children. Appellant obtained an ex parte domestic violence injunction against appellee and then she failed to attend the scheduled hearing to determine if the temporary injunction should be made permanent. At that hearing the court awarded custody to appel-lee and ordered a third hearing. Appellant failed to appear at the third hearing.
Because the record, sparse as it is, does not show that appellee properly pleaded for custody and that appellant was sufficiently noticed as to the custody issue, we must quash the order. Because the nature of a custody award involves the welfare and protection of children, and because there is an insufficient record for us to review the propriety of the award, we deem it best to require that the custody of the children must remain with the appellee until a proper full hearing and order on the issue is completed.
It is so ordered.
GOSHORN J., concurs.
ANTOON, J., concurs in part and dissents in part, with opinion.