STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES v. HARRIS

No. 90-2117.

575 So.2d 726 (1991)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES and Edna E. Newsome, Appellants, v. Zackie G. HARRIS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

February 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Edward Oramas of McClellan and House, Panama City, Joseph R. Boyd and William H. Branch of Boyd & Branch, and Chriss Walker, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, for appellants.

No appearance for appellee.


BARFIELD, Judge.

The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) and the former wife, Edna Newsome, appeal the trial court's ruling that HRS has no standing to represent Newsome in an action to modify the final judgment of dissolution to "set an amount of child support for the benefit of the minor child" and require the former husband, Zackie Harris, to furnish the child with health insurance. The trial court based its ruling on its finding that "the Plaintiff...

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