Case ID: so2d_830/html/0212-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARRIS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

E.G., Father of J.G. and K.B., Children, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.
    No. 5D02-1164.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Nov. 8, 2002.
    Ryan Thomas Truskoski, of Ryan Thomas Truskoski, P.A., Orlando, for Appellant.
    Charles D. Peters, Orlando, for Appel-lee, Department of Children & Family Services.
   HARRIS, J.

The court determined that two children were dependent because “if the children were to remain in the custody of [the mother or father], the children’s physical, mental, and emotional health would be in danger of being significantly impaired thereby placing the children at substantial risk of imminent abuse, abandonment and/or neglect.” This finding was based on competent evidence of an ongoing cocaine dependence on the part of both parents.

AFFIRMED.

GRIFFIN and SAWAYA, JJ., concur.