RS v. Dept. of Children and Families

872 So.2d 412 (2004)

R.S., the Mother, Appellant,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.

No. 4D03-3601.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 5, 2004.

Pamela Wynn, Lake Worth, for appellant.

Jeffrey Dana Gillen of the Department of Children and Family Services, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

GUNTHER, J.

The parental rights of R.S. were terminated. R.S. raises multiple issues on appeal. We write to address only the issue of whether the trial court erred by terminating R.S.'s parental rights on a ground not pleaded in the termination petition. On that issue, we reverse.

The…