A.G. v. DCF

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: February 6, 2017
• Docket: 5D16-3647
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

A.G., MOTHER OF H.F.D., T.D. AND M.R.G., CHILDREN,

Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D16-3647

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES,

Appellee. ________________________________/

Opinion filed February 7, 2017

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Marion County, Gary L. Sanders, Judge.

Ryan Thomas Truskoski, Special Assistant Regional Counsel, Jeffrey Deen, Appellate Counsel, and Lori D. Loftis, Assistant Regional Counsel, of The Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Casselberry, for Appellant.

Deborah Anne Schroth, for Appellee, Department of Children and Families.

Sara E. Goldfarb, Sanford, for Guardian ad Litem Program.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. See J.B.P. v. Dep't of Children & Families, 868 So. 2d 1289, 1290

(Fla. 4th DCA 2004) (“Because the complete record is sufficient and enables us to review the final order of termination, even with only a single omnibus finding, we have elected

not to reverse in this case. We caution the Judges in this District presiding over

termination of parental rights cases, however, not to infer that the failure to make specific

factual findings will always be harmless. In most cases-although not in this one-such

findings are indispensable.”).

ORFINGER and EDWARDS, JJ., and JACOBUS, B.W., Senior Judge, concur.