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SCOTT v. DHRS

No. 86-2020.

509 So.2d 1230 (1987)

Willie C. SCOTT, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

July 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William N. Gambert, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and James A. Sloan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

COBB and SHARP, JJ., concur.

COWART, J., dissents with opinion.

COWART, Judge, dissenting.

This is an appeal by a father from an order permanently terminating his parental rights to his child.

While the father lived in his home state of Alabama, his wife, in a Florida state mental hospital, gave birth on March 2, 1981, to the child in question. H.R.S. immediately

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