Case Name: L.A., the mother, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES, et al., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2016-10-19
Citations: 201 So. 3d 838
Docket Number: No. 3D16-1792
Parties: L.A., the mother, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES, et al., Appellees.
Judges: Before SHEPHERD, LAGOA and EMAS, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 201
Pages: 838–839

Head Matter:
L.A., the mother, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES, et al., Appellees.
No. 3D16-1792.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Oct. 19, 2016.
Eugene F. Zenobi, Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Third Region, and Kevin Coyle Colbert, Assistant Regional Counsel, for appellant.
Karla Perkins, Appellate Counsel for the Department of Children & Families; Laura J. Lee, Sanford, Appellate Counsel for the Guardian ad Litem Program, for appellees.
Before SHEPHERD, LAGOA and EMAS, JJ.

Opinion:
SHEPHERD, J.
ON CONCESSION OF ERROR
Upon the Department of Children and Families' and the Guardian ad Litem Program's appropriate concession of error in the trial court's sua sponte order placing the minor children, C.Y., N.Y. and T.Y., in permanent guardianship with the paternal grandmother, without notice to the mother as well as without an evidentiary hearing, in violation of the mother's due process rights, we reverse and remand for an evi-dentiary hearing. See In re KM., 86 So.3d 556 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012).
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.