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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Donald Melvin LYNN, Appellant, v. Ruth R. LYNN, Appellee.
    No. II-46.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    May 24, 1978.
    Theodore J. Troxel, of Kinsey & Troxel, Pensacola, for appellant.
    Nancy T. Gilliam, Pensacola, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

The trial court in a dissolution judgment ordered husband/appellant to pay child support to a child born during the marriage who both parties admitted was not biologically appellant’s child. We reverse. There is no legal duty to provide support for a child who is not a party’s natural or adopted child and for whose care the party has not contracted. Taylor v. Taylor, 279 So.2d 364 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973); Bostwick v. Bostwick, 346 So.2d 150 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977).

REVERSED.

MILLS, Acting C. J., and ERVIN and MELVIN, JJ., concur.