A.T.W. V. DCFS

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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida, July Term, A.D. 2008 Opinion filed October 22, 2008. ________________ No. 3D08-1613 Lower Tribunal No. 02-16032 ________________ A.T.W., Appellant, vs. Department of Children and Family Services, Appellee. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Marisa TinklerMendez, Judge. Joseph P. George, Jr., Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Third Region of Florida, and Nekishia L. Lester, Assistant Regional Counsel, for appellant. Karla Perkins; Hillary Kambour, for appellee. Before COPE and RAMIREZ, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. ON CONFESSION OF ERROR PER CURIAM. Upon consideration of DCF s candid and, we find, correct confession of error that the evidence does not support the trial court s finding that the appellant father abandoned the four year old child involved in this case, the adjudication of dependency under review is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings consistent herewith. 2

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