Case ID: so2d_789/html/0494-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A.M., Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.
    No. 4D00-2390.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    July 11, 2001.
    Gary L. Pickett, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Charles D. Peters, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse the final default judgment terminating appellant’s parental rights because of her failure to appear at the final hearing. Appellant was served only twenty-four hours prior to the hearing. J.B. v. Florida Department of Children & Family Services, 768 So.2d 1060 (Fla.2000), holds that where fundamental rights such as termination of parental rights are involved, more than twenty-four hours’ notice of a hearing where such rights could be terminated is required to satisfy procedural due process guarantees.

Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.

POLEN, C.J., WARNER, and GROSS, JJ., concur.