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IN RE H.E.

No. 2D07-4605.

3 So.3d 341 (2008)

In the Interest of H.E., a child. P.E., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services, and the Guardian Ad Litem Program, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lorena L. Kiely, Plant City, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Christopher Perone, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee Department of Children and Family Services.

Annette M. Lizardo, Orlando, for Appellee Guardian ad Litem Program.

DAVIS, Judge.

P.E. ("the Mother") challenges the trial court's termination of her parental rights to her child, H.E., which was based on the Mother's failure to appear at the final adjudicatory hearing. We reverse and remand.

On appeal, the Mother argues that the trial court erred by failing to require the Department to prove the basis for the termination. The Mother maintains that pursuant to S.S. v. Department of Children & Family Services,

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