DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ETC. v. J.W.A.

No. AI-244.

421 So.2d 25 (1982)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellant, v. J.W.A., a/K/a J.W.S., a Minor Child, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon W. Searcy, District One Legal Counsel, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Pensacola, for appellant.

Charles A. Wade, Crestview, for appellee.


ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Chief Judge.

We have carefully examined the entire record of this case, in which the circuit court finally denied a Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services petition to declare an abused child dependent, sections 39.40, et seq., Florida Statutes (1981), and granted the petition by the half-brother of the infant's unmarried 16-year-old mother, and his wife, to adopt the child. Chapter 63, Florida Statutes (1981). We have considered all...

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