District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order declaring a father's two children dependent as to him is reversed where the Department did not present any evidence that the father posed a present threat of harm to the children, the situation that gave rise to earlier domestic violence no longer existed, and the children were not exposed to a present threat of harm by continued acts of domestic violence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2006
• Published 08/18/2006

Judges

• STRINGER, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Henry G. Gyden of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Leonard E. Clark, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.