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DEPT. OF REVENUE v. BYRD

No. 97-4613.

710 So.2d 1036 (1998)

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE and Cindy Sickles, Petitioners, v. Randall BYRD, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

May 27, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Boyd and William H. Branch of Boyd, Lindsey, Williams & Branch, P.A., and Chriss Walker, Child Support Enforcement Office, Department of Revenue, Tallahassee, for petitioners.

Patrick J. Faucheux of Faucheux & Jones, P.A., Panama City, for respondent.

WOLF, Judge.

Petitioners argue that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law by directing respondent, petitioner Sickles, and their minor child to undergo DNA testing to determine the child's paternity seven years after respondent had already been adjudged the legal father of the child. We agree and quash the trial court's order compelling the DNA tests, with directions that respondent's motion to...

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