District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary dismissal of the Department of Children and Families' petition for dependency prior to the conclusion of an adjudicatory hearing is reversed where the lower court violated due process by summarily dismissing the petition after the Department's first witness had testified but before it had concluded presenting evidence in support of the petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/15/2006
• Published 09/15/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles D. Peters, Orlando, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sean F. Bogle of Law Offices of Sean F. Bogle, P.A., Altamonte Springs, for Appellee K.H., J. Manuel Acevedo, Sanford, for Appellee A.A.