Opinion
No. 90-972.
April 9, 1991.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Dade County, Steve Levine, J.
Shutts Bowen and Alan I. Mishael, Miami, for appellants.
John Browdy, III, Kathleen M. Smith, Miami, for appellees.
Before FERGUSON, LEVY and GODERICH, JJ.
The trial judge found that the delay by the state in advising indigent parents of their right to counsel for dependency proceedings, as required by section 39.406, Florida Statutes (1989), was "outrageous[ly]" late. He therefore refused to enter an order terminating parental rights and instead reset the case for a new dependency hearing with counsel. On the record presented in this case, the trial court's action was appropriate. See In the Interest of D.B., 385 So.2d 83 (Fla. 1980).
Affirmed.