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IN RE J.B.

No. 2D10-1195.

40 So.3d 917 (2010)

In the Interest of J.B., a child. R.M., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services and Attorney Ad Litem for the Child, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 30, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Hendry, Regional Counsel, Second District, and James P. Harris, Jr., Special Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Bartow, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and David J. Lopez, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee Department of Children and Family Services.

Rebecca R. Bell, C. Christine Smith, and Anissa K. Morris of The L. David Shear Children's Law Center of Bay Area Legal Services, Inc., Tampa, for Appellee Attorney ad Litem for the Child.

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

The circuit court adjudicated the child J.B. dependent as to his mother R.M. She maintains that the adjudication was not supported by competent, substantial evidence. We disagree and affirm.

We review a dependency adjudication for an abuse of discretion. We will uphold the ruling if the circuit court applied the correct law and its findings are supported by competent substantial evidence. C.J...

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