IN RE ADOPTION OF A.F.S.

No. 2D00-4776.

793 So.2d 91 (2001)

In re ADOPTION of A.F.S., a child. M.J. and R.E., mother and father, Appellants, v. C.S. and D.S., prospective adoptive parents, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 15, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Berry, Clearwater, and Susan L. Stockham, Sarasota, for Appellants.

Arthur C. Ginsburg of Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg, P.A., Sarasota, for Appellees.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

R.E. and M.J., the birth parents of a minor child, appeal a nonfinal order denying their motion to dismiss a petition for adoption of the child filed by C.S. and D.S. Our jurisdiction is limited to considering whether the trial court has personal jurisdiction over the birth father, R.E., and whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to transfer this case to the Republic of the Marshall Islands.1 We affirm...

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