DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHAB. SERVS. v. COLE

No. 90-596.

574 So.2d 160 (1990)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellant, v. Ronald I. COLE, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied February 18, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen D. Sullivan, Senior Atty. for Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Palatka, for appellant.

Ronald I. Cole and Larry B. Henderson, Ocala, for appellees.


COWART, Judge.

After a divorced father used a civil contempt proceeding in Volusia County against a mother to enforce the father's child visitation rights under a domesticated Alabama divorce decree, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) instituted (at the mother's behest) in Marion County a separate dependency action alleging the father had sexually abused his child. The child custody action was transferred to Marion County and consolidated with...

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