INTEREST OF B.A.

Case No. 2D19-4856.

299 So.3d 531 (2020)

In the INTEREST OF B.A., a child. L.A., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Families and Guardian Ad Litem Program, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied July 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria Christine Perinetti , Tampa, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mary Soorus , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee Department of Children and Families.

Thomasina Moore and Joanna Summers Brunell , Tallahassee, for Appellee Guardian ad Litem Program.


L.A. (the Mother) appeals the order terminating her parental rights to B.A. (the Child). We reverse.

On July 9, 2019, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) sheltered the Child, who was three years old at the time, because law enforcement allegedly found the Mother unconscious and intoxicated lying on the side of...

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