C.C. v. Department of Children & Families

We treat as a petition for writ of certiorari the appeal by C.C. (the mother) of a nonfinal order dismissing her petition for custody of her dependent child to be given to her brother and sister-in-law. See Department of Health & Rehabilitative Servs. v. Honeycutt, 609 So.2d 596, 597 (Fla. 1992); J.V. v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Servs., 661 So.2d 1263 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995); In Interest of J.Z., 636 So.2d 726 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993). We grant the petition in part, deny it in part, and direct the trial court on remand to hold an evidentiary hearing on the mother’s petition.

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