District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order dismissing a minor's petition for judicial waiver of parental notification of pregnancy is reversed where the circuit court misinterpreted relevant statutory language and applied an incorrect definition of "sufficiently mature" in holding petitioner to the standard of a fully-grown adult, and clear and convincing evidence supported a conclusion that petitioner was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/05/2006
• Published 04/06/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Shelbi Day, Andrea Costello and Cassandra Capobianco, Gainesville;  Randall C. Marshall, Miami, and Rebecca Harrison Steele, Tampa, of ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., for appellant.