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MEREDITH v. SMITH

No. 87-392.

515 So.2d 1386 (1987)

Oren MEREDITH, et al., Appellants, v. James SMITH, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

December 10, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Singbush, P.A., Ocala, for appellants.

Jeannette M. Haag of Haag & Deutschman, P.A., Inverness, for appellees.

COBB, Judge.

The Merediths appeal the trial court's order awarding temporary legal custody to the Smiths based on a finding that their daughter, Denise Meredith, was a dependent and abandoned child, and the trial court's issuance of an income deduction order. We reverse.

Sixteen-year-old Denise Meredith1 filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in January, 1986, accusing her mother of abuse. Thereafter...

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