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IN RE INTEREST OF S.M.

No. 2D13-5345.

136 So.3d 1271 (2014)

In the Interest of S.M. and G.M., children. J.M. and D.B., Petitioners, v. Department of Children and Family Services, and Guardian Ad Litem Program, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ama N. Appiah of Law Office of Ama N. Appiah, St. Petersburg, for Petitioners.

Jennifer S. Paullin , Sanford, for Respondent Guardian ad Litem Program.

No appearance for Respondent Department of Children and Family Services.

BLACK, Judge.

J.M., the Father, and D.B., the Mother, petitioned this court for a writ of certiorari to quash the disposition order that accepted the case plan requiring each to submit to a psychiatric evaluation1 and a substance abuse evaluation. The trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law because nothing in the record indicates that a substance abuse evaluation is relevant to the dependency or that it would meaningfully...

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