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IN RE ADOPTION OF R.M.H.

No. 88-215.

538 So.2d 477 (1989)

In re the ADOPTION OF R.M.H. R.W.S., Appellant, v. M.S.H. and M.R.H., M.D.L., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 27, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MaryEllen McDonald, Melbourne, for appellant.

Gerald W. Pierce of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., Fort Myers, for appellees.

SCHEB, Judge.

R.W.S., a teenage father, challenges a summary judgment and a final judgment of adoption of his infant child born out of wedlock. We reverse.

The record reveals that the child, R.M.H., was born approximately a year after the teenage parents began dating. Prior to the child's birth on February 24, 1987, the expectant parents met intermittently to discuss the situation. The day after the child's birth, the mother, M.D.L., signed a consent to adoption...

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