RIVERS v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES

No. 95-2731.

679 So.2d 1294 (1996)

Tyrone RIVERS, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

September 27, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alicia L. Latimore, Orlando, for Appellant.

Patricia A. Savitz, Orlando, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

GRIFFIN and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.

W. SHARP, J., dissents, with opinion.

W. SHARP, Judge, dissenting with opinion.

While it is clearly in the best interest of the four-year-old child involved in this case to be adopted by its foster family with whom he had been living his entire life since birth, I disagree that the natural rights of the father, Tyrone Rivers, should be terminated. Reliance on Williams v. Department...

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