Florida Child in Custody Dispute Set to Return to Biological Mother [View All]

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ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A 3 1/2-year-old boy at the center of a custody dispute faces a wrenching weekend. He is to be transferred from the only parents he knows to his biological mother, an attorney said Saturday.

Gene and Dawn Scott planned to hand over their adopted son, Evan, around lunchtime Saturday to his biological mother, Amanda Hopkins.

Hopkins, a member of the U.S. Navy, lives in Illinois with her husband and infant daughter, but their hometown has been kept in sealed court files.

The adoption was supposed to be final in August 2001. But a month before that, the boy's biological father, Stephen White, filed a motion demanding custody. The Scotts claimed White should not be able to block the adoption, but a judge disagreed.