METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY v. ABRAHAM

No. 88-2142.

539 So.2d 1172 (1989)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Lane S. ABRAHAM and the Circuit Court for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida, Juvenile Division, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, County Atty., and Hugo Benitez, Asst. County Atty., for petitioner.

Lane S. Abraham and Carl H. Lida, Virginia Lee Stanley and Robin H. Greene, Miami, for Juvenile Justice Attorneys Ass'n as amicus curiae; Christina A. Zawisza and John M. Ratliff for Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. and Henry George White and Scott Manion for Florida Legal Services, Inc. as amicus curiae.

Before BARKDULL, HUBBART and BASKIN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari brought by Metropolitan Dade County which seeks review of a circuit court order awarding attorney's fees to the respondent Lane Abraham for representing a parent before this court on appeal from an adverse order entered in a juvenile dependency proceeding.

Without reaching any of the issues raised by Metropolitan Dade County in its petition, we quash the order under review for being prematurely entered...

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