ROSS v. DEPT. OF HLT. AND REHAB. SERV.

No. 76-1160.

347 So.2d 753 (1977)

Vernice ROSS, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES of the State of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Bertisch, Howard D. Miskey and Stephen Maher, Legal Services of Greater Miami, Miami, for appellant.

Chester G. Senf, Jacksonville, Gerald B. Jaski, Miami, for appellee.

Before HENDRY, C.J., and PEARSON and HUBBART, JJ.


HENDRY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court dismissing appellant's petition for adoption.

Appellant-petitioner, a fifty-five year old widow, filed her petition to adopt the minor child, L, then age seventeen months. Appellant had been L's foster mother from the time the child was twelve days old. Appellee-respondent, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services of the State of Florida, was opposed to the adoption on the...

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