F.C. v. State, Department of Children & Families

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

F.C., Sr., challenges the final judgment terminating his parental rights to his four children. We reverse because the evidence was not sufficient to support termination.

The Department of Children and Families removed F.C.’s children from his home because the children’s mother had abused one of her other children, a half-sibling of the children in this case.1 No one ever claimed that F.C. abused any of the children living in the home. His children were declared dependent. Over the next few years, F.C. entered into various performance agreements or case plans that required him…