STATE, DEPT. OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES v. L.G.

No. 1D01-1984.

801 So.2d 1047 (2001)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Petitioner, v. L.G. and L.G., parents of M.G., a child, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Lee Fehr, Assistant District Legal Counsel, Pensacola, for Petitioner.

John Jay Gontarek of John Jay Gontarek, P.A., Ft. Walton Beach, Attorney for Respondent, Father. Michael A. Flowers, Esquire of Jones and Flowers, Niceville, Attorney for Respondent, Mother.


BENTON, J.

The Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) has filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking us to quash a circuit court order authorizing the custodial parent of a dependent child to move with her child to Georgia. Invoking Article III of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), the Department complains of the lack of written notice from Georgia child welfare authorities "to the effect that the proposed placement...

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