District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order of adoption, entered without the biological father's consent, is reversed where the child at issue had been "established by court proceeding" to be appellant-father's child, the father's parental rights had not been terminated, and thus, state law required the father's consent prior to the adoption of the child by her maternal grandparents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2006
• Published 05/22/2006

Judges

• HAWKES, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gertrude Kehne, Jacksonville, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael A. Shorstein, of Shorstein & Kelly, P.A., Jacksonville, and Michael J. Korn, of Korn & Zehmer, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellees.