Case Name: Carol Richards RAY, Appellant, v. Douglas Warren RAY, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-12-29
Citations: 630 So. 2d 1170
Docket Number: No. 92-04689
Parties: Carol Richards RAY, Appellant, v. Douglas Warren RAY, Appellee.
Judges: PARKER, A.C.J., BLUE, J., and ADAMS, DURAND J., Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 630
Pages: 1170–1171

Head Matter:
Carol Richards RAY, Appellant, v. Douglas Warren RAY, Appellee.
No. 92-04689.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Dec. 29, 1993.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 9, 1994.
Mary Ann Edmund, Bartow, for appellant.
T.W. Weeks, III, Lakeland, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The former wife challenges the trial court's order granting the former husband's petition for modification of final judgment of dissolution of marriage, which awarded primary residential care of the minor child to the former husband. Primary residential care had previously been with the former wife. The trial court based its ruling on the former wife's desire to move to Kansas with the child. We agree that the former husband did not meet his burden of proving that a substantial change of circumstances had occurred since the final judgment and that the child's best interests would be served by a change of custody. We reverse.
The former wife also filed a petition for modification requesting that the trial court modify the visitation provisions of the final judgment and grant permission for her and the minor child to reside in Kansas. While the trial court's order also purported to deny the wife's petition for modification it did not address the six part test for relocation mandated by Mize v. Mize, 621 So.2d 417 (Fla. 1993). We remand with instructions to the trial court to consider the wife's petition and make the findings required by Mize.
Reversed and remanded.
PARKER, A.C.J., BLUE, J., and ADAMS, DURAND J., Associate Judge, concur.