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Article: Cuban Child-Custody Dispute Made Public
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- July 19, 2007
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MIAMI - A judge will allow the public to view an international custody dispute over a 4-year-old Cuban girl, a case reminiscent of the fight over Elian Gonzalez.
Hearings had been held in secret for more than a year in the legal fight between the child's Cuban father and a family in Florida that wants to adopt her. On Wednesday, Judge Jeri B. Cohen obeyed an appeals court order for open hearings but ordered a gag order for all participants outside the courtroom.
The child entered the U.S. legally in March 2005 with her mother and a sibling. The girl was removed from her mother's care by the Florida Department of Children & Families about a year later, after an investigation into ...