RB v. Department of Children and Families

799 So.2d 441 (2001)

R.B., Father of J.B., A Child, Appellant,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.

No. 5D01-181.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

November 16, 2001.

Ryan Thomas Truskoski of RyanThomas Truskoski, P.A., Orlando, for Appellant.

James A. Sawyer, Jr., Kissimmee, for Appellee.

PALMER, J.

R.B. (father) appeals the order of the trial court adjudicating his daughter to be dependent and placing her in shelter care. Finding no abuse of discretion, we affirm.

The father contends that the trial court erred in finding dependency on the basis of abandonment, when the…