Chartier v. Doe

OPINION OF THE COURT

J. ALLISON DEFOOR, II, Acting Circuit Judge.

Introduction

This case involves a Petition to Vacate a Consent given by the natural mother in an adoption.' The Court begins its discussion by frank admission that this has been the most agonizing matter ever to come before the Court and were it ever to see another such case, it would be too soon. The Court has spent many hours in a meticulous review of the facts of the case, research into the law (not only in *9Florida but in virtually every American jurisdiction with case law on point, see generally, 50 A.L.R.3d 918) and in somber…