Russell v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

FRANK D. UPCHURCH, Jr., Judge.

Pamela Russell, the natural mother, appeals from an order terminating parental rights and committing her two children to the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services for adoption. She contends the court erred in terminating parental rights because HRS made no investigation into her current living arrangement and her competency to be a parent. She also contends that the court was required to consider a predisposition report under section 39.408(2), Florida Statutes.

*599Russell is twenty-one years old and illiterate. In April, 1980, the children, then one and…