D.F. v. Florida Department of Children & Family Services

Under the facts and circumstances of this case, I simply cannot find the trial court’s refusal to continue the trial terminating the appellant/mother’s parental rights to be an abuse of discretion. For that reason, I would affirm.

This case was filed in the dependency court in 1997. Since that time, the State has taken the children into custody but later reunified the mother with the children on several occasions. On the last such occasion, the mother and children were reunited on a Friday, but the mother was arrested and incarcerated on the following Monday in the federal penal system on a…