C.C. v. DEPT. OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES

No. 1D01-2996.

812 So.2d 520 (2002)

C.C., mother of A.C., a child, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia L. Parker, Jacksonville, for Appellant.

John Slye, General Counsel, Tallahassee and Doris Rompf, Jacksonville, for Appellee.


BENTON, J.

C.C. appeals the order terminating her parental rights to A.C., who was taken from her five days after A.C. was born. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

The trial court ordered termination of C.C.'s parental rights, concluding it had such authority on multiple grounds: C.C.'s neglect and abandonment of A.C. "for the past 12 months or more"; C.C.'s failure substantially to comply with a case plan; C.C.'s "egregious conduct that endangered...

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