Department of Children & Families v. Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Program

Petitioner, the Department of Children and Families (“Department”), seeks certio-rari review of the trial court’s Order Dismissing the Department’s Exceptions to the Report and Recommendation Entered on October 20, 2015, wherein the court also ratified, approved, and incorporated the magistrate’s report and recommendation. The Department argues that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law by limiting the Department’s consideration of prospective adoptive homes for P.W., F.W., W.W.-l, W.W.-2, and J.W. (“Children”), a sibling group of five minor children in fits custody,…