D.G. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

No. 3D09-1730.

16 So.3d 972 (2009)

D.G., Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES and the Guardian Ad Litem Program, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

August 26, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. George, Jr., Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, and Carol Gillespie, Assistant Regional Counsel, for petitioner.

Karla Perkins, Assistant District Legal Counsel, for respondent Department of Children and Families; and Hillary S. Kambour, for respondent The Guardian Ad Litem Program.

Before COPE, GERSTEN, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.


ROTHENBERG, J.

D.G. ("the father") seeks a writ of certiorari, quashing the trial court's non-final order granting the maternal grandparents unsupervised weekly and biweekly visitation rights with the father's minor child, J.G. ("the child"). We grant the petition.

A dependency proceeding was instituted against the father by the respondent, Department of Children and Families, in October 2008. In light of the mother being deceased and the father's history...

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