Case ID: so2d_349/html/0716-02.html
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Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. BOYER, Acting Chief Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Appeal of Mary D. MATHEWS and Hurtis E. Mathews. In re ADOPTION OF Julie MILLER, minor.
    No. EE-333.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Aug. 18, 1977.
    Brooks Taylor, Crestview, for appellants.
    C. LeDon Anchors of Estergren, Fortune, Anchors & Powell, Fort Walton Beach, for appellee.-
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

MILLS and ERVIN, JJ., concur.

BOYER, Acting C. J., concurs specially.

BOYER, Acting Chief Judge,

concurring specially.

I concur only because of the presumption of correctness with which the order of a trial court reaches this court. I am not of the view that the ages of appellants are or should have been a controlling factor and had I been the trial judge I would have granted the petition for adoption. However, District Courts of Appeal have been repeatedly admonished by the Supreme Court of Florida against substituting their opinions for those of a trial judge. I therefore reluctantly join with my brethren in affirmance.