MH v. Department of Children and Families

M.H., the mother, petitions this Court for a writ of certiorari to review a nonfinal order granting the paternal grandmother of the child, M.P., unsupervised visitation with the child. We grant the petition and quash the order under review.

In March 2008, M.P. was removed from her mother’s custody and placed with the paternal grandmother. DCF filed a petition for dependency, to which the mother, in August 2008, consented. In June 2009, the trial court granted the mother’s motion for reunification with her daughter and, pursuant to a custody release order, the child was returned to the mother’s…