Opinion
Case No. 4D02-1019.
Opinion filed February 12, 2003. Rehearing Denied April 11, 2003.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; John A. Frusciante, Judge; L.T. Case No. 99-140 DP.
Eugene S. Garrett, Boca Raton, for appellant.
Charlie Crist, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laurel R. Wiley, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Department of Children Families.
Eddie E. Stephens, III, of Christiansen Jacknin, West Palm Beach, for appellee R.N., the Father.
In this dependency case, M.N., the mother, appeals the trial court's February 7, 2002 order, denying her motion to change placement from the father, R.N.M.N. also seeks review of the trial court's order entered September 26, 2000, denying her motion for continuance. We have carefully reviewed the record and find no error in the trial court's denial of M.N.'s motion for change of custody.
We also note that M.N.'s appeal of the September 26, 2000 order was untimely. The trial court's order dated May 13, 1999, which adjudicated the children dependent and ordered the family to attend treatment services, was the final order on appeal. Thus, that order could not be appealed via the February 7, 2002 order. See A.G. v. Dep't of Children Family Servs., 731 So.2d 1260 (Fla. 1999); G.L.S. v. Dep't of Children Families, 724 So.2d 1181 (Fla. 1998); O'Brien v. Juvenile Domestic Relations Court of Dade County, 161 So.2d 220 (Fla. 3d DCA 1964).
AFFIRMED.
KLEIN, STEVENSON, JJ., and BAILEY, JENNIFER D., Associate Judge, concur.