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DEPT. OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES v. R.A.

No. 3D08-721.

980 So.2d 578 (2008)

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES and the Guardian ad Litem Program, Petitioners, v. R.A., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 25, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karla Perkins, Miami; Hillary S. Kambour, for petitioners.

Joseph P. George Jr., Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Third Region of Florida, and Richard F. Joyce, Executive Assistant Regional Counsel, for respondent.

Before LAGOA and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

By this decision, we quash an order returning two dependent children, an eleven-year-old boy and a thirteen-year-old girl, to the custody of their mother, the respondent R.A., over the objection of the Department of Children and Families.

I.

On February 15, 2008, the children were present and traumatized when R.A., who suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the balcony...

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