B.G. v. Department of Children & Family Services

WALLACE, Judge.

B.G., the father, challenges the trial court’s order granting the Department of Children and Family Services’ (DCF) motion to enforce the parties’ stipulated plea agreement and the resulting final order of adjudication of dependency as to his minor children, B.G. and B.G. Because the trial court failed to determine that B.G.’s consent to a finding of dependency was given voluntarily and with a full understanding of the possible consequences of the consent, we reverse.

On July 15, 2003, DCF filed a Petition Alleging Dependency against B.G., which alleged that B.G. had failed to…