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IN RE M.K.S.

No. 97-04882.

726 So.2d 309 (1998)

In the Interest of M.K.S., a child. M.S., Appellant, v. Richard Phelps, Linda Phelps and Eileen H. Griffin, Guardian ad Litem, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied February 19, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia R. Vetter, Tampa, for Appellant.

Clifton C. Curry, Jr. and Frank J. Nivert of Curry & Associates, P.A., Brandon, for Appellees.

SCHEB, JOHN M., Senior Judge.

Appellant, the natural father of M.K.S, challenges the trial court's order adjudicating his daughter a dependent child and placing her with relatives of her late mother. The court based its judgment on the father having abandoned his daughter. We find the evidence legally insufficient to support a finding of abandonment. We reverse.

Appellees, Linda and Richard Phelps, M.K.S.'s maternal great aunt and uncle, sought to have the...

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