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§ 63.012, Fla. Stat. — Short title. · BenchPath

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Law Library
The Florida Statutes
Title VI
Chapter 63
§ 63.012, Fla. Stat.

§ 63.012, Fla. Stat. · Chapter 63. ADOPTION

Short title.

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — 2026 Florida Statutes

This chapter shall be known as the “Florida Adoption Act.”

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

s. 1, ch. 73-159.

Source of truth

Edition: 2026 Florida Statutes
Official file: https://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0000-0099/0063/0063.html
Text hash: sha256 2a328743b0f54c1f50a22f146ed8747a2596a8f5b4fb4846facc682b12491a4b
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composed from the Legislature's structured HTML (one source of text; no PDF extraction); a second, independent reading of the same bytes agrees character for character

← § 61.773, Fla. Stat.§ 63.022, Fla. Stat. →

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