Child support for custodial grandparents in FL?

Back in 1999-2000 I had just suffered a really bad marital breakup and had sent my son to live with his paternal grandparents in Florida til I could get sorted out. My in-laws took advantage of me not being able to afford a lawyer and first got custody (which they didn't need, they had an in loco parentis document) and then filed for adoption. They claimed that my estranged husband (now ex) and I would both owe child support and as he was in prison and I wasn't making much income, it would have been a hardship on us both. I suspected back then that they were B.S.ing me and I'm even more suspicious of it now. Does anyone have any idea what the law was back then, or do you know where I can go look it up and what I should look *for*? It's too late to reverse the adoption but at least I'd know. Thanks in advance.

To clarify the situation a bit more: There was just one child, as I said. Also, I had set up an in loco parentis document for them to be able to care for my son until I was back on my feet. So they had essentially the same rights they would have had if they'd had custody. I was pretty sure they screwed me over but couldn't hire a lawyer to prove it and wasn't in Florida anyway. I just wondered if anyone out there might have some clearer answers for me.

I know a couple who took in 2 of their grand kids. The parents owed child support only because the grandparents filed for it through DCF. They did not adopt the kids, but filed for and received custody. The father was in prison and the mother had to pay child support to the state even though she made very low wages.

Kids can live with their grandparents with or without legal custody. Child support is owed only if the grandparents file for it through DCF. Your ex's parents screwed you, but as you stated it is way too late to do anything about it. They didn't do it for the kids, they did it for themselves. Someday you can explain to your kids what happened.

Child support is a result of two parents/guardians splitting up and one parent taking priority in caring for the child over the other, and the judge determines the amount of child support in order for the parent/guardian to be able to create a similarly comfortable living environment for the child as he/she is raised. Now, I don't know the laws, but my mother got custodial guardianship over my niece, and over the course of moving to 3 different states in 4 years (including living in Florida where my niece was born) filed for adoption and my sister held no contest. Just from that situation alone, and also from my parents' recent divorce as I was moving out of the house, I got a pretty good idea over the court rulings and processes of the definitions of certain things, so I know what I say about the child support is true. So, unless you wanted to create some sort of contract with your in-laws saying you want to pay them for your child, I guess you could, but it's clear that you don't, so it would not be valid for them to demand it from you.