P.R., THE MOTHER, APPELLANT,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, AND GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM, APPELLEES

Citator

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• Booth v. Hicks, 301 So. 3d 369 (Fla. 2d DCA 2020)
  …e in the presence of the children, in a manner which will not adversely affect the children."). We have stated that "this consideration must govern even in the face of a party's procedural defaults or contumacious conduct." Rahall v. Cheaib-Rahall, 937 So. 2d 1223, 1225 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006) ("[A] parent's 1Normally, we would not be able to consider whether the trial court erred by terminating the Mother's parental responsibility, as it was not specifically argued in her brief. See D.H. v. Adept Cmty. Servs., I…
• Rebeca Velazquez a.k.a. Rebeca Hernandez v. Millan, 963 So. 2d 852 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007)
  …ustodian. Velazquez maintains here that the trial court engaged in no best interest analysis as mandated by section 61.13 of the Florida Statutes, but instead improperly pun [*854] ished her for reporting Millan to INS. See Rahall v. Cheaib-Rahall, 937 So. 2d 1223, 1224-25 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006) (citations omitted) (explaining that courts are not to “penalize the children for the parent’s contumacious conduct” and that “a parent’s actions in the lawsuit cannot trump the child’s right to have custody decided based…
• Echezarreta v. Echezarreta, 944 So. 2d 1169 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006)
  …Fla. 2d DCA 2006), or for other assumed wrongdoing, see Rose v. Ford, 861 So. 2d 490 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003); Meixner v. Meixner, 785 So. 2d 600 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001); Andrews v. Andrews, 624 So. 2d 391 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993); see also Rahall v. Cheaib-Rahall, 937 So. 2d 1223 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006), we hold, on the particular facts of this case— in which the mother enrolled the children in school in Delray Beach less than a week after the permission to relocate had been denied — that it was within the court’s discretion to r…

Authorities Cited

• P.R. v. Dep't of Child. & Families, 936 So. 2d 754 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)