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

STRINGER, Judge.

M.B., the Father, challenges the trial court’s order declaring his two children, K.B. and M.B., dependent as to him. Because the Department did not present any evidence that the Father poses a present threat of harm to the children, we reverse.

The facts at the adjudicatory hearing established that the Father and Mother began a relationship in 1996. K.B. and M.B. were the result of that relationship. On July 23, 2004, the Father and Mother got into an altercation after the Father learned that the Mother was cheating on him. During this altercation, the Father knocked the Mother…