Court Opinion

ID: 4446384
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-10-11 17:03:17.748665+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:24:52.215856
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                          No. 1D19-1966
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E.L.J., Father of A.J. and B.J.,
Each A Minor Child,

    Appellant,

    v.

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND
FAMILIES,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County.
David Gooding, Judge.

                          October 11, 2019

PER CURIAM.

     AFFIRMED. See Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745, 769 (1982)
(holding that the clear and convincing evidence standard may be
used to terminate parental rights as the standard “adequately
conveys to the factfinder the level of subjective certainty about [its]
factual conclusions necessary to satisfy due process”).

B.L. THOMAS, BILBREY, and M.K. THOMAS, JJ., concur.
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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Ryan Thomas Truskoski, Orlando, for Appellant.

Ward L. Metzger, Department of Children and Families,
Jacksonville, Thomasina F. Moore, Statewide Director of Appeals
and Sara Elizabeth Goldfarb, Senior Attorney, Appellate Division,
Guardian ad Litem Program, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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