Busbee v. Weeks

Citations

• 80 Fla. 323
• 85 So. 653

Syllabus

<p>1. At common law the father has a paramount right to the custody and control of his legitimate minor children, subject only to lawful regulations for' the benefit of his children.</p> <p>2. Where an infant girl’s mother died at its birth and when the child was three days old its father verbally committed its care and custody to its maternal grand parents until the father could otherwise provide for its proper care, and when the child is about four years old, the father, who, with his other children, live with, his parents, is entitled to the custody of the infant girl, particularly when allot the home conditions of the maternal grand parents are not so desirable and the father’s home with his parents is a proper place for the child's welfare, even though the personal attentions of the maternal grand parents to the infant girl are in every way commendable.</p>