M.H. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

No. 3D09-1829.

13 So.3d 1099 (2009)

M.H., Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES and Guardian Ad Litem Program, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 10, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. George, Jr., Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Third Region of Florida, and Carol J. Gillespie, Assistant Regional Counsel, for petitioner.

Hillary S. Kambour, for Guardian ad Litem Program; Karla Perkins, for Department of Children and Families, respondents.

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


SHEPHERD, J.

M.H., the mother, petitions this Court for a writ of certiorari to review a nonfinal order granting the paternal grandmother of the child, M.P., unsupervised visitation with the child. We grant the petition and quash the order under review.

In March 2008, M.P. was removed from her mother's custody and placed with the paternal grandmother. DCF filed a petition for dependency, to which the mother, in August 2008, consented. In June 2009, the trial...

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