IN RE ADOPTION OF A.M.L.

No. 73-410.

297 So.2d 840 (1974)

In re ADOPTION OF A.M.L., a Minor.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 24, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank B. Watson, Jr. and T. Rankin Terry, Jr. of Roberts, Watson, Taylor & McNeil, Fort Myers, for appellants.

Sheppard & Johnson by Emmet B. Anderson, Fort Myers, for appellee.


MANN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a brief order denying, without ascription of reason, the petition of foster parents to adopt a small child who has been in their care since she was two months old. The child's mother was married at the time of the birth and both the mother and her husband have consented to the adoption. A man who is said to be the natural father of the child contested the adoption. The record before us is scant, but reveals a report of the...

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