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· 1/12/1960

City of Miami v. Pellegrino

Citations

  • 116 So. 2d 675
  • 1960 Fla. App. LEXIS 3121

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that \parental rights are not preserved\ by waiting for a more \convenient\ or \suitable\ time for the parent while others perform their duties
  • stating that \parental rights are not preserved\ by waiting for a more \convenient\ or \suitable\ time for the parent while others perform their duties
  • concluding the orphans’ court abused its discretion in determining that termination served the needs and welfare of 15- and 13-year-old children in part because of the children’s preferences to reunify and reluctance to consent to adoption
  • vacating the order terminating the mother’s parental rights even though the father’s parental rights were terminated and he did not appeal
  • vacating the order terminating the mother’s parental rights even though the father’s parental rights were terminated and he did not appeal
  • in a termination of parental rights case, recognizing that the subject children, who were thirteen and fifteen years old, “need to consent to adoption at this point.”

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