Re: Brother is pivotal in Cuban girl's custody dispute


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Posted on Fri, Jul. 27, 2007

COURTS | CUBA CASE
Brother is pivotal in Cuban girl's custody dispute
While his sister is at center stage in a tense U.S.-Cuba custody drama, a
12-year-old boy ponders a future without her.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
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The preteen brother of a 4-year-old girl at the center of an international
custody dispute is emerging as a key player in the drama, which has pitted
the girl's birth father, a Cuban national, against Florida child-welfare
administrators and the boy's adoptive family.

Alan Mishael, the attorney for the Coral Gables family that adopted the
12-year-old boy and wishes to adopt his sister, announced at a court
hearing Thursday that he will ask a judge to make the boy a party to the
dispute. If that is approved by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jeri B. Cohen,
the boy would be allowed to help in trying to sway the judge's ruling.

Regardless of the judge's decision, the boy's plight already is casting a
large shadow over the dispute, which involves children born to the same
woman, but who have two different birth fathers.

''This is a major issue we are facing: [The siblings] are beginning to
ponder the possibility of separation,'' the boy's adoptive father told the
judge. ``There is an enormous amount of pain. There is an enormous amount
of anxiety for each child.

Bad language as the media already makes their own decree that the Coral
Gables family HAS in their legal view "ADOPTED" the child ,therefore the
issue is settled,. Why waste court time when the Miami Herald issues a
decree?

Again issues take the legal questions askew as the mud begins to fly and
children become pawns.


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