Case ID: so2d_635/html/0139-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "STEVENSON, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In The INTEREST OF C.B., a minor child.
    No. 93-1955.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    April 13, 1994.
    Luis del Nodal, Jr., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant-mother.
    Sondra R. Schwartz, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee-State of Florida, Dept, of Health and Rehabilitative Services.
   STEVENSON, Judge.

The mother appeals the trial court’s order terminating her parental rights. We affirm.

We reject appellant’s contention that the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (DHRS) failed to make reasonable efforts to reunify the family as required by section 39.467(3)(d)2, (e), Florida Statutes (1991). Over a two year period, the mother was offered drug treatment programs, but failed to complete them; parenting classes, but failed to attend them; and allowed contact with the minor child, but failed to visit her. DHRS met its burden of establishing the need for termination of parental rights by clear and convincing evidence. See § 39.-467, Fla.Stat.

This opens the opportunity for the child’s subsequent adoption into, hopefully, a loving and nurturing home.

Affirmed.

GLICKSTEIN and GUNTHER, JJ., concur. 
      
      . The natural father, whose parental rights were also terminated by the lower court, has not filed an appeal.