Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services ex rel. Peterson v. Ward

Petitioner, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS), brings this cause as a petition for writ of certiorari on behalf of Wende L. Peterson, mother of two minor children for whom child support is being sought by a complaint filed in Broward Circuit Court pursuant to the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), chapter 88, Florida Statutes (1991). HRS challenges an order denying its motion to dismiss a counterpetition for dissolution of marriage filed in response to the URESA complaint, by Jon C. Peterson, the father.

We sua sponte redesignate this petition as a…