Court Opinion

ID: 7451967
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 03:18:14.950367+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:22:43.144227
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
MANN, Judge.
Appellees suggest that we have overlooked In re Vincent, Fla.App. 1st 1961, 219 So.2d 454. We have not. In that case the natural father had never seen the child during its first five years, and was so indifferent to its welfare that a decree of adoption was properly granted the child’s stepfather, the only father she had ever known. That case is completely different from this one. There is in this record some evidence of laxity in providing support, but not enough to support a finding of abandonment, and an effort to make much of the father’s allowing his present wife to write the child on behalf of both of them, a circumstance appellees are unwilling to credit even slightly to the *54appellant. The child was in fairly regular communication with her father and stepmother. There is no basis for a finding of abandonment, actual or constructive, on this record.
The other point urged upon us on petition for rehearing concerns a question not involved in this appeal.
Rehearing denied.
LILES, Acting C. J., and McNULTY, J., concur.