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IN INTEREST OF M.M.

Nos. 97-00329, 97-00449.

708 So.2d 990 (1998)

In the Interest of M.M., V.M., O.M., III, R.M., T.Z., F.Z., L.Z., and S.Z., Children. O.M. and M.Z., parents, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, f/k/a/ Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 25, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shea T. Moxon of Richard Escobar, P.A., Tampa, for Appellants.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Gary G. Carpenter, Assistant Attorney General, Children's Legal Services, Tampa, for Appellee.

ALTENBERND, Judge.

The mother and father appeal a default judgment that terminated their rights to their eight children. We reverse because the trial court had no authority to enter a default when the parents, who were represented by counsel, were ninety minutes late to an adjudicatory hearing. The trial court also erred when it allowed the attorneys representing these indigent parents to withdraw during the period in which...

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