FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES v. M.H.

No. 3D22-1716.

355 So.3d 1024 (2023)

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellant, v. M.H., the mother, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Opinion Filed February 8, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karla Perkins , Appellate Counsel, for appellant.

Eugene F. Zenobi , Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Third Region, and Kevin Coyle Colbert , Assistant Regional Counsel, for appellee M.H., the Mother; Sara Elizabeth Goldfarb , Statewide Director of Appeals, and Laura J. Lee , Assistant Director of Appeals (Tallahassee), for appellee Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office.

Before LOGUE, SCALES and HENDON, JJ.


The trial court's August 17, 2022 "Order Regarding Indirect Civil Contempt" directed the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) to pay a $2,500 sanction to a charity of DCF's choice for DCF's purported failure to timely comply with the trial court's July 8, 2022 placement order. The placement order, requiring DCF to move two children...

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