Anderson v. Anderson

Appellant, Matthew T. Anderson, appeals a Final Judgment of Adoption by Stepparent which found that he abandoned his biological children and which terminated his parental rights. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in failing to determine if appellant was indigent and therefore, entitled to appointment of counsel pursuant to O.A.H. v. R.L.A., 712 So.2d 4 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998). Appellant requests that this court hold, as the Second District did in O.A.H., that counsel should be appointed to represent a non-consenting parent in a contested adoption proceeding when that parent…