JUSTICE ADMINISTRATIVE COM'N v. PETERSON

No. 2D07-6075.

989 So.2d 663 (2008)

JUSTICE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. Keith A. PETERSON, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 23, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Presnell, General Counsel, and Christian D. Lake, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, for Petitioner, The Justice Administrative Commission.

Keith A. Peterson, pro se.


CASANUEVA, Judge.

The Justice Administrative Commission (JAC) petitions for a common law writ of certiorari to quash the circuit court's order that it pay attorney's fees and costs to the court-appointed counsel for an indigent, nonparent legal custodian in a juvenile dependency proceeding. Because the plain language of the statute, section 29.007(2), Florida Statutes (2006), authorizing the JAC to pay attorney's fees and costs does not include nonparents in these...

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