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WOODS v. ESTATE OF WOODS

No. 3D00-1781.

770 So.2d 1270 (2000)

Dotson WOODS, Appellant, v. ESTATE OF Jeremy C. WOODS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 15, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dotson Woods, in proper person.

Robert S. Singer; Ginsberg & Schwartz and Arnold R. Ginsberg, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE, J., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.

NESBITT, Senior Judge.

Following the settlement of a wrongful death action on behalf of the estate of the decedent, Jeremy C. Woods, a minor, the proceeding became a contest between the competing natural parents as to the proper allocation of the sums available as a result of the claim of mental pain and suffering. See § 768.21(4)Fla. Stat. (1998). The trial judge adopted the mother's argument that the father was not present at the child's birth nor listed...

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