Month: August 2013

  • Independent Living Final Orders for April – June 2013

    Through an agreement with the good people at Florida Administrative Law Reports, I’m happy to be able to share with you the Independent Living fair hearing final orders that would not have otherwise made it into the published FALR. In this batch I received ten final orders ranging in dates from April 12, 2013 to…

  • S.L. v. DCF: How to beat an abandonment case

    In 2012, the Florida Legislature decided that parents were not being TPR’d enough for abandoning their children, and so they tweaked the definition of abandonment to make it easier to bring a case. Instead of abandonment being defined as failing to maintain a relationship with your child and failing to support your child, it was weakened to…