Step-Parent Adoptions vary widely in complexity.Step-Parent Adoptions in Florida can involve extremely complicated family dynamics that require a large amount of attorney time and legal expense. They can also be very simple where the birth parent is deceased or...
Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal recently held that permanent guardianship with relatives is not part of the least restrictive means analysis and does not defeat a termination of parental rights petition in B.B. v. D.C.F. B.B.’s child was removed from...