The lives of adopted children of same-sex couples are now more secure because Cristina Alonso and Alan Mishael successfully appealed a ruling that ripped a Sanford woman out of her son’s life.
Working pro bono, Alonso, a shareholder at Carlton Fields Jorden Burt in Miami, and Mishael, a Miami Beach solo practitioner, persuaded the Fifth District Court of Appeal that the woman, identified in court records only as G.P., could remain her son’s adoptive mother. The Florida Supreme Court allowed that ruling to stand Aug. 13.
