Case Title: Larkin v. DFS

Citation: 

Docket Number: 637, 2013

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2013-11-20T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
SUSAN LARKIN,1 
 
Respondent Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
DEPARTMENT OF SERVICES FOR 
CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND THEIR 
FAMILIES, DIVISION OF FAMILY 
SERVICES, 
 
Petitioner Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 637, 2013 
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§  Court Below—Family Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for Sussex County 
§  File No. CS13-02798  
§  Pet. No. 13-31332 
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Submitted: November 18, 2013 
  Decided: November 20, 2013 
 
Before HOLLAND, BERGER, and JACOBS, Justices. 
 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 20th day of November 2013, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
The respondent-appellant, Susan Larkin (“Mother”), has petitioned 
this Court, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 42, to accept an appeal from an 
interlocutory order of the Family Court dated October 28, 2013.  The trial court’s 
order continued emergency temporary custody of Mother’s fourteen-year-old 
daughter with the Division of Family Services (DFS) and scheduled an 
adjudicatory hearing for Mother on November 18, 2013. 
                                                 
1 The Court assigned a pseudonym to the appellant pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 7(d). 
 
 
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(2) 
Mother filed her application for certification to take an interlocutory 
appeal in the Family Court on November 5, 2013.  The Family Court denied the 
certification application on November 15, 2013. 
(3) 
Applications for interlocutory review are addressed to the sound 
discretion of this Court.  In the exercise of its discretion, this Court has concluded 
that the application for interlocutory review does not meet the requirements of 
Supreme Court Rule 42(b) and should be refused. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the within 
interlocutory appeal be REFUSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ Carolyn Berger 
Justice