RM v. Department of Children and Families

ON MOTION TO WITHDRAW

GRIFFIN, J.

In the various district courts of appeal, the question of what non-final orders are appealable in a dependency case has become something of a quagmire, even leading one court recently to question what is (and what is not) a final order in a dependency case. M.V.-B., a child v. Dep’t of Children & Family Servs., 19 So.3d 381 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009). It has become common for us to deal with this problem by saying that no non-final order in a dependency case is appealable; that such orders are reviewable only by certiorari. Amid all this uncertainty, there appears to…