In re J.R.C

Full title: In the Interest of J.R.C., A.C., and B.C., Children. C.H.C. Appellant, v…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: Jan 12, 2011

67 So. 3d 263 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

Opinion

No. 2D10-4116.

January 12, 2011.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Raymond O. Gross, Judge.

Jane H. Grossman of the Law Office of Jane H. Grossman, St. Petersburg, for Appellant.

Bernie McCabe, State Attorney, and Ronald S. Frankel, Assistant State Attorney, Clearwater, for Appellee.

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

C.H.C., the mother of three minor children, challenges the circuit court's decision to place the children in a permanent guardianship with an adult relative. See § 39.6221, Fla. Stat. (2009). We conclude that competent substantial evidence supported the circuit court's ruling, and we affirm it without further discussion. However, the court's order did not "[s]pecify the frequency and nature of visitation or contact between" the children and their mother, as mandated by statute. See § 39.6221(2)(c). Accordingly, we reverse on this basis and remand for the court to conform the order to this statutory requirement.

Reversed and remanded.

WHATLEY and WALLACE, JJ., Concur.