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IN RE S.M.A.L.

No. 2D04-1704.

902 So.2d 328 (2005)

In the interest of S.M.A.L., a child, S.K.R., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services and Gift of Life Adoptions, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 27, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melissa Gilkey Mince, Seminole, for Appellant.

No brief filed by Department of Children and Family Services.

John R. Fricker, Pinellas Park, for Appellee, Gift of Life Adoptions.

FULMER, Judge.

S.K.R., the legal father of S.M.A.L., challenges an order terminating his parental rights to his child, S.M.A.L. Because the trial court erred in holding that the Legal Father had no standing to contest the termination, we reverse.

It appears to be undisputed that the Legal Father was married to K.R., the mother of S.M.A.L., at the time of the child's birth on January 15, 2002, although another man, C.L., is the child's putative biological father...

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