D.E. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

No. 5D01-3105.

823 So.2d 864 (2002)

D.E., Father of D.D.E., Jr., a Child, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

August 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ryan Thomas Truskoski of Ryan Thomas Truskoski, P.A., Orlando, for Appellant.

James A. Sawyer, Jr. of Department of Children and Families, Kissimmee, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

GRIFFIN and SAWAYA, JJ., concur.

ORFINGER, R. B., J., dissents in part with opinion.

ORFINGER, R. B., dissenting in part.

I respectfully dissent in part. I do so not because I believe D.E., the father of D.D.E., a seven-year-old child, is a suitable custodian for his son, but rather because I think the trial judge failed to adequately consider placing the child with his paternal grandmother as an alternative to...

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