IN RE ADOPTION OF M. A. H.

No. 80-1159.

411 So.2d 1380 (1982)

In re the ADOPTION OF M.A.H., a Minor Child.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharyn D. Garfield of Law Office of Chesley V. Morton, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Charles R. Forman of Gill & Forman, Ocala, for appellee.


LETTS, Chief Judge.

The paternal grandparents, age 52, here protest the denial of their petition to permanently adopt their 5 year old granddaughter. The natural father consented, but the natural mother, age 26, to whom the child was born out of wedlock, opposed the adoption although she herself had been found by the court ordered Health & Rehabilitative Service's (HRS) investigation to be an unfit mother incapable of assuming responsibility for the child "at...

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