CopyCited 5 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 9614, 2013 WL 3014115
...3d DCA 1995) (footnote omitted); see also Finstuen v. Crutcher,
496 F.3d 1139, 1141 (10th Cir.2007) (“We hold that final adoption orders by a state court of competent jurisdiction are judgments that must be given full faith and credit under the Constitution by every other state in the nation.”). Section
63.192, Florida Statutes (2011), provides that Florida courts must recognize the adoption decrees of other states: A judgment ......
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1992 WL 24483
...537 (1937). By statute, a judgment of court establishing the relationship of a parent and child by adoption, which is issued pursuant to due process of law, by a court of any jurisdiction within or without the United States will be recognized by Florida. Section 63.192, Fla....
CopyCited 2 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 4633, 2009 WL 1311599
...on within or without the United States shall be recognized in this state, and the rights and obligations of the parties on matters within the jurisdiction of this state shall be determined as though the judgment were issued by a court of this state. § 63.192, Fla....
...Ryan's argument being raised for the first time on appeal, but, on the merits, Florida law expressly grants parental rights to any person who has obtained the status of parent by virtue of an adoption decree from a sister state. As noted in the majority opinion, section
63.192 not only mandates recognition of adoption judgments issued by another state but further states that "the rights and obligations of the parties on matters within the jurisdiction of this state shall be determined as though the judgment were issued by a court of this state." In other words, Ms. Embry is entitled to the same rights and obligations that are granted to a person who became an adoptive parent by virtue of a Florida judgment of adoption. Unlike section
63.042, section
63.192 does not exclude homosexuals from its provisions....
CopyPublished | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 1555, 2015 WL 477856
...” Boardwalk Regency Corp. v. Hornstein,
695 So.2d 471, 471 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997). “To give full faith and credit to a foreign judgment is to give it the same effect that the foreign state would have given it.” Atwell v. Atwell,
730 So.2d 858, 860 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999). Section
63.192, Florida Statutes (2010), which we must interpret consistent with the Full Faith and Credit Clause, provides [a] judgment ......
