EMBRY v. RYAN

No. 2D08-1323.

11 So.3d 408 (2009)

Lara EMBRY, Appellant, v. Kimberly RYAN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 13, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Blue and Cristina Alonso of Carlton Fields, P.A., Miami, Shannon P. Minter of National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA, and Karen Doering, St. Petersburg, for Appellant.

Horatio G. Mihet, Mathew D. Staver and Anita L. Staver of Liberty Counsel, Orlando, and Mary E. McAlister and Rena M. Lindevaldsen of Liberty Counsel, Lynchburg, VA, for Appellee.

Alfred J. Saikali and Daniel B. Rogers of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Miami, and Lori Alvino McGill and Elizabeth G. Wright of Latham & Watkins, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae, The Center for Adoption Policy, The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, The National Center for Adoption Law and Policy, The University of Florida Center on Children and Families, The University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Clinic, Mark Brown, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, and Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.

Jon L. Mills of University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, for Amici Curiae, Professors Erwin Chemerinsky, Sharon Rush, and Robert Schapiro.


WHATLEY, Judge.

Lara Embry appeals an order dismissing with prejudice her petition for declaratory relief and petition to determine parental responsibility, contact and support as to her adopted daughter. The trial court dismissed the petitions after finding that the adoption judgment, which was entered in the state of Washington, need not be recognized in Florida. We reverse.

In 2000, Embry and Kimberly Ryan, the child's biological mother, were engaged in...

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