Family Law Keyed to Weisberg
Palmore v. Sidoti
Facts
Petitioner Linda Palmore and respondent Anthony Sidoti, both Caucasians, were divorced in 1980 in Florida, with the mother being awarded custody of their daughter. In 1981 the father filed a petition to modify the prior judgment because of changed conditions, based on the child’s mother cohabitating with a Negro, Clarence Palmore, Jr., whom she married two months earlier. The father also made several allegations that the mother had not properly cared for the child. The court noted no issue as to either party’s devotion to the child, adequacy of housing facilities, or respectability of the new spouse of either parent. The court counselor made an earlier report in another case involving the social consequences of an interracial marriage. The court found likewise in this case the wife had chosen for herself and for her child a life-style unacceptable to her father and to society. The court found the best interests of the child would be served by awarding custody to the fath er, because of the environmental pressures that would be placed on the child that are not of the child’s own choice.
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