IN RE ADOPTION OF PETERSON

No. 76-1400.

344 So.2d 638 (1977)

In re ADOPTION OF Wendy Dee PETERSON.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Lavon Ward, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Gary L. Self, Pompano Beach, for appellee.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

The matter concerns adoption and custody of a 4 1/2 year old girl who has resided with her maternal grandparents since the death of her mother when the child was less than 2 years old. Her father, Leonard Peterson the Appellee, consented to a custody order being entered in favor of Earl and Mildred Rogge, the grandparents-Appellants in 1974.

In the action below the grandparents sought to adopt the child and sever the rights of the father to...

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