Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Doe

WOLF, Judge.

Petitioners filed a petition for writ of common law certiorari to review the trial court’s order granting respondents’ motion to intervene and to file a counter-petition for adoption. The issue is whether the trial court deviated from the essential requirements of law in granting respondents’ motion to intervene in the adoption of the half sibling of their adopted child.

In June 1993, the respondents (Does) took custody of Mary1 Doe, a newborn girl, through private adoption proceedings. The adoption became final in October 1993. On September 7, 1993, while Mary was already in her…