FREDERICK EDWARD LEO, SR., APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (17 total)

• In the Interest of R.W. v. Pollock, 495 So. 2d 133 (Fla. 1986)
  …s. Id. at 753-54, 102 S.Ct. at 1394-95. District courts of this state have expressly required a showing of abandonment, abuse, or neglect, by clear and convincing evidence, before parental rights can be permanently terminated. In Interest of A.B., 444 So. 2d 981 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983); Carlson v. Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, 378 So. 2d 868 (Fla. 2d DCA 1979). This Court has recognized that the protection of the parent-child relationship is so significant that a permanent termination procee…
• IN the Interest OF D.J.S. and J.S.G. v. Dep't of Health & Rehabilitative Servs., 563 So. 2d 655 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990)
  …permanent commitment hearing,” citing In the Interest of A.D.J., 466 So. 2d 1156 (Fla. 1st DCA), rev. denied 475 So. 2d 693 (Fla.1985) (emphasis added). It further argues that “proof of the abuse may be prospective,” citing In the Interest of A.B., 444 So. 2d 981, 994 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983), and that “proof of,abuse against one child may be proof against all the children of the parents,” citing In the Interest of W.D.N., 443 So. 2d 493 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984). The facts argued as carrying the Department’s burden of…

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• Burk v. Dep't of Health & Rehabilitative Servs., 476 So. 2d 1275 (Fla. 1985)
  …is child, violated its statutory duty when it refused to offer a performance agreement to Burk. Therefore, the trial court erred in terminating Burk’s parental rights and permanently committing the girl for adoption. Accord, In the Interest of A.B., 444 So. 2d 981 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983) (trial court erred in terminating parental rights on ground of abandonment without first offering a performance agreement to the child’s natural mother). We also find that our interpretation of section 409.168 is supported by th…

Authorities Cited

• Delbert Lee Tibbs v. State, 397 So. 2d 1120 (Fla. 1981)