DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERV. v. DOE

Nos. 95-355, 95-398.

659 So.2d 697 (1995)

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Petitioner, v. John DOE and Jane Doe, as Intervenors in the Adoption of B.M., Respondents. The BROWNS, Petitioners, v. John DOE and Jane Doe, as Intervenors in the Adoption of B.M., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied September 20, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. John Westberry, Deputy Dist. Legal Counsel, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Pensacola, for petitioner, Florida Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

Robert A. Emmanuel of Emmanuel, Sheppard & Condon, Pensacola, for respondents.

John C. Susko and Paula S. Dominik, The Center for Family Law, Pensacola, for petitioners, the Browns.


WOLF, Judge.

Petitioners filed a petition for writ of common law certiorari to review the trial court's order granting respondents' motion to intervene and to file a counter-petition for adoption. The issue is whether the trial court deviated from the essential requirements of law in granting respondents' motion to intervene in the adoption of the half sibling of their adopted child.

In June 1993, the respondents (Does) took custody of Mary

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