Case ID: so2d_619/html/0379-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas LUPINEK, Appellant, v. Tom FIRTH and Lisa Firth, Natural Parents, Appellees.
    No. 92-2936.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    May 28, 1993.
    
      Teresa Cooper Ward, St. Petersburg, for appellant.
    . No appearance for appellees.
   GRIFFIN, Judge.

The order appealed, which declared the petitioner’s Motion for Termination of Parental Rights a “nullity”, is reversed. Pursuant to section 39.461(1), Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.500(b), appellant, as the child’s Guardian Ad Litem, had the authority to file a petition to terminate parental rights. The petition may have been defective but it was not a nullity.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

PETERSON and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.