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In re A.M

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
May 29, 2009
8 So. 3d 1289 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

Opinion

No. 2D08-6133.

May 29, 2009.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County; Rex M. Barbas, Judge.

David A. Dee, Tampa, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kimberly G. Gore, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


A.M., the Father, challenges the trial court's order adjudicating his four-month-old child, A.M., dependent. The Department correctly concedes error because the only evidence presented below to support an adjudication of dependency as to the Father was inadmissible hearsay. As such, the evidence presented below was insufficient, and we must reverse. See R.S. v. Dep't of Children Families, 881 So.2d 1130, 1132 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004) ("[R]eversal is required where the evidence is legally insufficient to sustain the findings of the trial court.").

Reversed.

FULMER and SILBERMAN, JJ., Concur.


Summaries of

In re A.M

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
May 29, 2009
8 So. 3d 1289 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)
Case details for

In re A.M

Case Details

Full title:In the Interest of A.M., a child. A.M., Appellant, v. Department of…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: May 29, 2009

Citations

8 So. 3d 1289 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

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