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MATTER OF HEIRS OF HODGE

No. 84-677.

470 So.2d 740 (1985)

In re the Matter OF Determination of HEIRS of Octavia HODGE, Deceased. Alden POOLE, Appellant, v. Ruby Jean BURNETT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied June 17, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven H. Gray and Ralph J. McMurphy, of Green, Simmons, Green, Hightower & Gray, P.A., Ocala, for appellant.

E.G. Musleh, Ocala, and Tyrie A. Boyer of Boyer, Tanzler & Boyer, P.A., Jacksonville, for appellee.

DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment determining heirs.

This case involves the rarity "virtual adoption." When someone gives his or her natural child to another with an agreement that the other will adopt the child then the child will be deemed to have an enforceable contractual right. Sheffield v. Barry, 153 Fla. 144, 14 So.2d 417 (1943); Roberts v. Caughell, 65 So.2d 547 (Fla. 1953); Laney...

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