Friedland v. State Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

KLEIN, Judge.

As a result of HRS filing a petition for adjudication of dependency alleging abuse and neglect, S.C. and J.F. were placed in shelter care with Mr. and Mrs. Muller. After the trial court found that HRS failed to prove its case, it vacated the shelter orders and dismissed the petition with prejudice. The court did not, in the dismissal, specifically provide that the children were to be sent home.

J.F. was returned to the appellant parents, but S.C., a teenager, did not return. The parents filed motions and a petition for writ of habeas corpus a few months later, alleging that the…