IN RE C.J.

No. 2D07-5990.

987 So.2d 828 (2008)

In the Interest of C.J., a child. J.C.-J., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services and Guardian Ad Litem Program, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 15, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman A. Palumbo, Jr., Tampa, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kelly R. Schaeffer, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee Department of Children and Family Services.

Jennifer S. Paullin of Guardian ad Litem Program, Orlando, for Appellee Guardian ad Litem Program.


SILBERMAN, Judge.

J.C.-J., the Mother, appeals an order terminating her parental rights with respect to her daughter, C.J., on the grounds of abandonment. The Department and the Guardian ad Litem (GAL) concede that the evidence did not support that termination was in C.J.'s manifest best interest. In addition, the GAL concedes that the evidence did not support that the Mother abandoned C.J.

Our review of the record reflects that the Department and the GAL...

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