Case Name: Evelyn Gayle GREEN, Appellant, v. James Mark GREEN, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-04-15
Citations: 523 So. 2d 771
Docket Number: No. 87-1280
Parties: Evelyn Gayle GREEN, Appellant, v. James Mark GREEN, Appellee.
Judges: ERVIN and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 523
Pages: 771–772

Head Matter:
Evelyn Gayle GREEN, Appellant, v. James Mark GREEN, Appellee.
No. 87-1280.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
April 15, 1988.
Rehearing Denied May 6, 1988.
Harold Colee, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Donald W. Matthews, of Matthews, Stone & Rodenborn, Jacksonville, for appel-lee.

Opinion:
WIGGINTON, Judge.
Appellant appeals the trial court's order modifying the final judgment of dissolution of the marriage of the parties by changing primary custody of the parties' two minor children from appellant to appellee. Noting especially the extraordinary burden imposed upon a noncustodial parent seeking to modify a prior award of custody, we reverse due to lack of findings in the order on appeal and lack of evidence in the record showing a substantial change in circumstances that adversely affects the children's best interests. See Peaden v. Slatcoff, 522 So.2d 959 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988); Zediker v. Zediker, 444 So.2d 1034 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984); Culpepper v. Culpepper, 408 So.2d 782 (Fla. 2d DCA 1982).
REVERSED.
ERVIN and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.