SIMMS v. STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB.

No. 92-1629.

641 So.2d 957 (1994)

Samantha SIMMS, a/k/a Ellen B. Simms, a/k/a Samantha Goldfinger, a/k/a Ellen Barbara Goldfinger, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, and Robert Christian, Guardian Ad Litem, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosemary B. Wilder, Fort Lauderdale, and Gail L. Grossman, Miami, for appellant.

White & Case, Stephen M. Corse, Eric S. Roth and Hillary B. Rossman, Miami, for appellees.

Virginia Lee Stanley, Miami, and Barbara Green, Coral Gables, for the Juvenile Justice Attys. Ass'n, as amici curiae.

Christina A. Zawisza and Margaret F. Zehren, Miami, for the Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., as amici curiae.

Young, Franklin, Berman & Karpf, Barry S. Franklin, North Miami Beach, for the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, as amicus curiae.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Louis F. Hubener, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State of Fla., Dept. of Legal Affairs, as amici curiae.

Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel, Steven M. Goldsmith and Charles M. Auslander, Miami, for the Guardian Ad Litem Programs for the First, Second, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Judicial Circuits, as amici curiae.


GERSTEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final order terminating the parental rights of appellant, Samantha Simms (the mother). We affirm.

Turning first to the merits of the case, we determine that the trial court's order is supported by clear and convincing evidence of the mother's severe neglect of her minor children. Parental rights can be terminated only upon a showing, by clear and convincing evidence, of neglect, abuse, or abandonment. § 39.464...

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