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IN RE Z.L.

No. 2D08-3029.

4 So.3d 684 (2009)

In re Z.L., a child. F.B., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services and Guardian Ad Litem Program, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 6, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jackson S. Flyte, Regional Counsel and Robert D. Rosen, Assistant Regional Counsel of Law Offices of the Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Bartow, for Appellant.

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

Wendie Michelle Cooper, Guardian ad Litem Program, Orlando, for Appellee, Guardian ad Litem Program.

NORTHCUTT, Chief Judge.

F.B. has never personally seen his daughter, Z.L., who was born in 1998, but the whys and wherefores are not revealed in the record. In the absence of additional evidence, the circuit court erred in terminating F.B.'s parental rights. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.

We note initially that, as conceded by both the Department of Children and Family Services and the Guardian ad Litem Program, the court's termination...

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