W.R., the father, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (2020)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

W.R., the father, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al., Appellees.

No. 3D20-0109

Decided: June 17, 2020

Before SALTER, SCALES and LINDSEY, JJ.

Thomas Butler, P.A., and Thomas J. Butler, for appellant. University of Miami School of Law Children & Youth Law Clinic, and Robert Latham, for H.F., the Child; Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A., and Joshua Byrne Spector; Thomasina F. Moore and Sara Elizabeth Goldfarb (Tallahassee), for Guardian ad Litem Program; Karla F. Perkins, for the Department of Children and Families, for appellees.

Affirmed. See Y. P. v. Dep't of Children & Family Servs., 939 So. 2d 1118, 1119 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006) (“We review an adjudication of dependency for an abuse of discretion, and will uphold the determination if the trial court applied the correct law and its ruling is supported by competent, substantial evidence.”); F.G. v. Dep't of Children & Families, 820 So. 2d 1027, 1030 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002) (holding that incarceration of a father may be a factor, when considered with other factors in evidence, in determining abandonment and neglect of a child, warranting an adjudication of dependency).

PER CURIAM.

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