Emergency pickup order for child

A person sent a child to Florida from another state - to spend the summer with a friend. The other parent originally abandoned the child, never paid child support, and never partipated in parenting. The other parent learned of the child's presence in Florida and got the local court to issue a emergency pickup order - based on danger to the child. Any time an emergency pickup order is issued by a court, a followup hearing is scheduled within 14 days to allow both parties to support or oppose the original order. In this case, the court decided that because the original parent/custodian was now with the child, the emergency was over. The court ordered the child to be returned to that parent.

Moral of the story: if you have a potential custody dispute in the near future, do not let your child out of your personal control - even for several days.