Dependency Law Finder

       Third District Court of Appeal
                                State of Florida
                            Opinion filed June 17, 2020.
          Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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                                No. 3D20-0109
                          Lower Tribunal No. 17-15362
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                               W.R., the father,
                                     Appellant,
                                         vs.
              Department of Children and Families, et al.,
                                    Appellees.

      An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Vivianne Del Rio, Judge.
      Thomas Butler, P.A., and Thomas J. Butler, for appellant.
      University of Miami School of Law Children & Youth Law Clinic, and Robert Latham, for H.F., the Child; Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A., and Joshua Byrne Spector; Thomasina F. Moore and Sara Elizabeth Goldfarb (Tallahassee), for Guardian ad Litem Program; Karla F. Perkins, for the Department of Children and Families, for appellees. Before SALTER, SCALES and LINDSEY, JJ.
      PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See Y. P. v. Dep’t of Children & Family Servs., 

 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006) (“We review an adjudication of dependency for an abuse of discretion, and will uphold the determination if the trial court applied the correct law and its ruling is supported by competent, substantial evidence.”); F.G. v. Dep’t of Children & Families, 

 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002) (holding that incarceration of a father may be a factor, when considered with other factors in evidence, in determining abandonment and neglect of a child, warranting an adjudication of dependency).