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GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM v. R.A.

No. 5D08-1993.

995 So.2d 1083 (2008)

GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM, Appellant, v. R.A., Father of J.K.A., a Child, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

November 21, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Annette M. Lizardo and Thomas Wade Young, Orlando, for Appellant.

Herbert S. Zischkau III, Deltona, for Appellee.

LAWSON, J.

In this termination of parental rights case, the guardian ad litem ("GAL") appeals an order granting the father's motion to change the placement of his daughter, J.A., from the home of her foster parents to the home of her grandmother. Because the trial court based its ruling upon an erroneous view that the law provided the grandmother a placement preference under these circumstances, we find that the court departed from the essential requirements of the...

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