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J.B.P.F. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES

No. 4D01-5028.

837 So.2d 1108 (2003)

J.B.P.F., the Mother, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 19, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise E. Kistner of Law Offices of Denise E. Kistner, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Charlie Crist, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laurel R. Wiley, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

POLEN, C.J.

J.B.P.F. ("Mother") timely appeals an order adjudicating her minor child A.P. dependent. While it appears dependency may in fact be an appropriate remedy, since we do not find dispositive the lower court's reasons for adjudicating A.P. dependent, we remand for further proceedings as discussed below.

The Department of Children and Family Services ("DCF") filed its first petition seeking to adjudicate A.P. dependent in July of 2000. A.P. was thirteen...

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