Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2016

L.A. v. Department of Children & Families

L.A. v. Department of Children & Families
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided October 19, 2016 · Emas, Lagoa, Shepherd
201 So. 3d 838; 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 15568 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

L.A. v. Department of Children & Families

Opinion of the Court

SHEPHERD, J.

ON CONCESSION OF ERROR

Upon the Department of Children and Families’ and the Guardian ad Litem Program’s appropriate concession of error in the trial court’s sua sponte order placing the minor children, C.Y., N.Y. and T.Y., in permanent guardianship with the paternal grandmother, without notice to the mother as well as without an evidentiary hearing, in violation of the mother’s due process rights, we reverse and remand for an evi-dentiary hearing. See In re KM., 86 So.3d 556 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012).

Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.

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