Florida Statutes 63.235 – Petitions filed before effective date; governing law

Adoption: means the act of creating the legal relationship between parent and child where it did not exist, thereby declaring the child to be legally the child of the adoptive parents and their heir at law and entitled to all the rights and privileges and subject to all the obligations of a child born to such adoptive parents in lawful wedlock. See Florida Statutes 63.032

Any petition for adoption filed before the effective date of this act shall be governed by the law in effect at the time the petition was filed.

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