T.W.S. v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

WIGGINTON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s order terminating foster care and supervision by the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, and placing T.W.S. in the custody of his paternal grandparents. At the outset of these protracted proceedings, which stretched over the course of two years, T.W.S. was adjudicated dependent shortly after his birth, removed from his mother’s custody, and placed in foster care in the home of his paternal grandparents residing in New York. His mother and father were estranged, the mother living in Jacksonville, the father on a naval base…