IN RE ADOPTION OF BABY E.A.W.

No. 84819.

658 So.2d 961 (1995)

In re the ADOPTION OF BABY E.A.W. G.W.B., Petitioner, v. J.S.W., et ux., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 20, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Pesso, Boca Raton, for petitioner.

Stuart R. Manoff of Weissman & Manoff, P.A., West Palm Beach; and Michele I. Nelson of Paxton, Crow, Bragg, Smith & Keyser, P.A., West Palm Beach, for respondents.

Suellyn Scarnecchia, Child Advocacy Law Clinic, University of Mich. Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, amicus curiae, for DeBoer Committee for Children's Rights.

Lynn G. Waxman, West Palm Beach, amicus curiae, for Charlotte Danciu.


HARDING, Justice.

We have for review In re Adoption of Baby E.A.W., 647 So.2d 918 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994), where the district court certified this question as one of great public importance:

IN MAKING A DETERMINATION OF ABANDONMENT AS DEFINED BY SECTION 63.032(14), FLORIDA STATUTES (SUPP. 1992), MAY A TRIAL COURT PROPERLY CONSIDER LACK OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND/OR EMOTIONAL ABUSE OF THE FATHER TOWARD THE MOTHER DURING...

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