Dependency Law Finder

          FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D20-1785
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P. J., Mother of M.R.M., a Minor Child,

    Appellant,

    v.

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Okaloosa County. Terrance R. Ketchel, Judge.

                         January 12, 2021


PER CURIAM.

     AFFIRMED. See § 39.806(1)(d), Fla. Stat. (2019) (establishing grounds for termination of parental rights to include “[w]hen the parent of a child is incarcerated and . . . [t]he period of time for which the parent is expected to be incarcerated will constitute a significant portion of the child’s minority”); D.S. v. Dep’t of Children & Families, 

 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015) (explaining that a court’s analysis of what constitutes a “significant portion of the child’s minority” under section 39.806(1)(d)1. “must look both at the length of the incarceration as well as its effect on the child’s need for permanency”). ROWE, M.K. THOMAS, and NORDBY, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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P.J., pro se, Appellant.

Celines Garcia-Ryan, Assistant Regional Counsel, Fort Walton Beach, Thomasina F. Moore and Sara Goldfarb, Guardians ad Litem, Tallahassee, Stacey Wood, Children’s Legal Services, Fort Walton Beach, Shayna J. Parrish, Guardian ad Litem, Crestview, Sarah J. Rumph, Children’s Legal Services, Tallahassee, for Appellee.