In the Interest of M.P., a child

District Court of Appeal of Florida

In the Interest of M.P., a child

175 So. 3d 920, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 14152, 2015 WL 5618281

District Court of Appeal of Florida·Decided September 25, 2015·No. 2D15-2065·Published

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*921 PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See O.I.C.L. v. Dep’t of Children & Families, 169 So.3d 1244, 1246 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015) (affirming the denial of a private petition for dependency based on the ground, among others, that the child who was being eared for by an uncle did not qualify as dependent); Dep’t of Children & Families v. Dixon, 938 So.2d 992 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) (holding, based on a concession of error, that the “trial court was without jurisdiction to conduct an adjudicatory hearing because the children turned 18 before the date of the hearing”); In re M.C.S., 327 P.3d 360, 363 (Colo.App.2014) (dismissing a petition for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on the ground that “a juvenile court has subject-matter jurisdiction only to adjudicate children younger than eighteen” and observing that the court is “not at liberty to expand either the definition of ‘child’ or the court’s jurisdictional, reach”).

SILBERMAN, KELLY, and MORRIS, JJ., Concur.

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*921 PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See O.I.C.L. v. Dep’t of Children & Families, 169 So.3d 1244, 1246 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015) (affirming the denial of a private petition for dependency based on the ground, among others, that the child who was being eared for by an uncle did not qualify as dependent); Dep’t of Children & Families v. Dixon, 938 So.2d 992 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) (holding, based on a concession of error, that the “trial court was without jurisdiction to conduct an adjudicatory hearing because the children turned 18 before the date of the hearing”); In re M.C.S., 327 P.3d 360, 363 (Colo.App.2014) (dismissing a petition for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on the ground that “a juvenile court has subject-matter jurisdiction only to adjudicate children younger than eighteen” and observing that the court is “not at liberty to expand either the definition of ‘child’ or the court’s jurisdictional, reach”).

SILBERMAN, KELLY, and MORRIS, JJ., Concur.

In the Interest of M.P., a child, 175 So. 3d 920, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 14152, 2015 WL 5618281 (Fla. Ct. App. 2015).

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