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IN RE C.D.

No. 2D03-2638.

867 So.2d 405 (2003)

In the Interest of C.D., Minor child. T.E.D., father, Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 26, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heather M. Gray, Riverview, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Tanya E. DiFilippo, Assistant Attorney General, for Appellee.

ALTENBERND, Chief Judge.

In this case, an order terminating parental rights was entered based upon a "default." The father was three minutes late for the initial advisory hearing. He waited outside the courtroom in the waiting area for forty-five minutes until given information as to the proper courtroom. He was "defaulted." Although an attorney had been appointed to represent the father in an earlier shelter hearing

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