K.P. v. State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

RYDER, Acting Chief Judge.

K.P. raises three issues in her challenge of the trial court’s order terminating her parental rights. We find merit in her argument that the trial court erred in failing to make findings with regard to the manifest best interests of the child as required by section 39.467(2), Florida Statutes (1991).

Neither the court’s order nor the transcript indicate that the trial court considered or evaluated all of the factors delineated in section 39.467(2)(a)-(k) in reaching the determination that termination of parental rights was in the manifest best interests of the child.…