JONES ET AL.

v.

TRUCK DRIVERS LOCAL UNION NO. 299

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• In re the Adoption OF Baby E.A.W. G.W.B. v. J.S.W., 658 So. 2d 961 (Fla. 1995)
  …e “no effort to communicate with the child.” Id. Of course, this definition contemplates the actual birth of a child to communicate with and to support. As this Court actually wrote in In Re Adoption of Doe, 543 So. 2d 741, 745 (Fla.), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 964, 110 S.Ct. 405, 107 L.Ed.2d 371 (1989), “there can be no statutory abandonment under chapter 39 until the child is born.” However, here, as in Doe, after correctly stating this proposition, the majority promptly ignores it and embraces a concept mor…

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• C.S. and J.S. v. S.H. and K.H., 671 So. 2d 260 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996)
  …eedings as long as possible so that the argument could be raised, as it was here, that separation would now cause harm. As the supreme court noted under different circumstances in In re Adoption of Doe, 543 So. 2d 741, 744 (Fla.1984), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 964, 110 S.Ct. 405, 107 L.Ed.2d 371 (Fla.1989), we must be careful not to adopt a rule that “physical custody, because of substantial bonding, is determinative in contested adoptions.” Id. at 744. The danger in measuring the child’s “best interests” by…
• Rushing v. Bosse, 652 So. 2d 869 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995)
  …The Florida Supreme Court has recognized that an adoption pursuant to chapter 63, Florida Statutes (1985), is a civil proceeding intended to serve the best interests of the child.2 Matter of Adoption of Doe, 543 So. 2d 741 (Fla.1989), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 964, 110 S.Ct. 405, 107 L.Ed.2d 371 (1989). In doing so, the court noted subsection 63.022(1), Florida Statutes (1987), which provides: “It is the intent of the Legislature to protect and promote the well-being of persons being adopted and their natural…