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G.M. v. Department of Children & Families254 So. 3d 508 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018) · 4D18-2398

Court
4th DCA
Decided
2018-10-10
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       DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                              FOURTH DISTRICT
                             G.M., the mother,
                                Appellant,
                                     v.
              DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES,
                            Appellee.
                              No. 4D18-2398
                            [October 10, 2018]
  Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Carolyn Bell, Judge; L.T. Case No. 50-2018-DP-000165- XXXX-MB.
  Antony P. Ryan, Regional Counsel, and Richard G. Bartmon, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Fourth District, for appellant.
   Andrew Feigenbaum of the Department of Children and Families, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
                      ON CONFESSION OF ERROR PER CURIAM.
   G.M., the mother, appeals an order requiring her to submit to a psychological evaluation as part of her case plan. The order does not contain the requisite findings that the mother’s mental health was “in controversy” and that “good cause” was shown, see § 39.407(15) Fla. Stat. (2018); Fla. R. Juv. P. 8.250(b), nor does the record support such a finding, see Wade v. Wade, 
124 So. 3d 369, 374-75
 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013); Gasparino v. Murphy, 
352 So. 2d 933, 935
 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977). We accept the state’s concession of error and reverse and remand for the trial court to strike the psychological evaluation from the mother’s case plan in the disposition order.

   Reversed and remanded with instructions.

GROSS, TAYLOR, and LEVINE, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. 

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