MATTER OF ADOPTION OF SERPE

No. 80-1179.

395 So.2d 1240 (1981)

In the matter of the ADOPTION of Toni Anita SERPE Nee Toni Anita Gravina.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. King of Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant Joseph Gravina.

Charles T. Whitelock of Feinstein & Whitelock, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee James Serpe.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a final judgment granting a stepfather's petition for adoption over the objection of the child's father. We reverse.

The child's mother and father were divorced in 1974 and the mother was awarded custody. For several years thereafter the parties were involved in an active dispute over the father's visitation rights with the child. At one point, apparently because of the mother's refusal to allow visitation, the father was...

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