Opinion
No. II-46.
May 24, 1978.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Escambia County, Grover C. Robinson, Jr., J.
Theodore J. Troxel, of Kinsey Troxel, Pensacola, for appellant.
Nancy T. Gilliam, Pensacola, for appellee.
The trial court in a dissolution judgment ordered husband/appellant to pay child support to a child born during the marriage who both parties admitted was not biologically appellant's child. We reverse. There is no legal duty to provide support for a child who is not a party's natural or adopted child and for whose care the party has not contracted. Taylor v. Taylor, 279 So.2d 364 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973); Bostwick v. Bostwick, 346 So.2d 150 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977).
REVERSED.
MILLS, Acting C.J., and ERVIN and MELVIN, JJ., concur.