Department of Children & Family Services v. Heart of Adoptions, Inc.

CASANUEVA, Judge.

The Department of Children and Family Services and A.M., the unmarried biological father of J.T., challenge the circuit court’s decision to “relinquish its jurisdiction” to another division of the circuit court after Heart of Adoptions, Inc., was permitted to intervene in this dependency case. At the time that Heart of Adoptions entered this case, J.T. was almost oneyear old. She had been placed in emergency shelter care at birth because her birth mother, R.T., was homeless and tested positive for drugs. Her biological father’s *1214history, like her birth mother’s, included drug…