STATE, DHRS v. OPEL

No. 92-01967.

620 So.2d 191 (1993)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, and Carrie Doty, Petitioners, v. Jeffrey OPEL, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Carlton and Amanda Traweek of Carlton & Carlton, P.A., Lakeland, for Petitioner.

Joe M. Gonzalez of Joe M. Gonzalez, P.A., Tampa, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioners seek certiorari review of an order granting respondent Jeffrey Opel's request for a Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) test. We grant the petition.

In 1985 an Indiana court declared that Opel was the father of a child born to petitioner Carrie Doty, and set child support at $40.00 per week. Opel, who did not appear at any dispositive Indiana hearings and who now resides in Florida, has never paid anything. Upon service of Ms. Doty's URESA...

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