S.L. v. Department of Children & Families

The Mother appeals the order terminating her parental rights to her two children. We affirm the order of termination, but reverse as to one ground, and remand for modification of the order as explained below.

After the children were sheltered based on the Mother’s drug abuse and the Mother entered a plea of consent to the dependency petition, an order of adjudication of dependency was entered and a case plan was approved. The case plan provided for numerous conditions, many of which were related to the Mother’s drug addiction issues. The Department of Children and Families (Department)…