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D.M. v. J.D.M. EX REL. C.F.

No. 4D01-4553.

814 So.2d 1112 (2002)

D.M., Appellant, v. J.D.M, a minor, by and through his next-best friend, C.F., C.F., former wife, individually and as next-best friend of J.D.M, Amy Swan, Psy.D., Guardian Ad Litem Program, 17th Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Florida, Office of the Attorney General, State of Florida Dependency Division, State of Florida Department of Children and Families and Broward County Sheriffs Department, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Goldsmith of Steven M. Goldsmith, P.A., Boca Raton, and Deanna Shifrin of Buckner & Shifrin, Miami, for appellant.

Nancy W. Gregoire of Bunnell, Woulfe, Kirschbaum, Keller, McIntyre & Gregoire, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

WARNER, J.

This appeal arises from an order denying a motion to transfer venue of a dependency action from Broward County to Dade County, where post-dissolution custody proceedings involving the minor had been ongoing for the past ten years. We conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to transfer the proceedings to Dade County and reverse.

Appellant, D.M., divorced his former wife, C.F., in Dade County in 1990. A year later, the final...

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