Sheehy v. Sheehy, 75-652
| Decision Date | 12 December 1975 |
| Docket Number | No. 75-652,75-652 |
| Parties | Carolyn Patricia Blanco SHEEHY, Appellant, v. Ronald John SHEEHY, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Robert C. Gibbons and Philip R. Lazzara of Gibbons, Tucker, McEwen, Smith, Cofer & Taub, Tampa, for appellant.
Richard H. McInnis, Tampa, for appellee.
Appellant-mother, having been awarded permanent child custody by a final judgment of dissolution of marriage, appeals from a modification of that judgment which awards certain visitation rights to the paternal grandparents. We reverse.
An order granting visitation rights to a non-parent of a child whose custody has been awarded to a fit parent is unjustified and unenforceable. 1 In view whereof, the order appealed from is, in this regard, reversed. In all other respects it is affirmed.
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