P.C. v. Department of Children & Family Services

DAVIS, Judge.

P.C., the mother, challenges the circuit court order terminating her parental rights to her son, S.C. The mother also appeals the circuit court’s denial of her motion to set aside the default. We affirm both orders without comment. We write, however, to clarify the statutorily prescribed result of a parent’s failure to appear at an adjudicatory hearing for termination of parental rights.

Section 39.801(3)(d), Florida Statutes (2002), provides in part:

If a parent appears for the advisory hearing and the court orders that parent to personally appear at the adjudicatory hearing for…