Dependency Law Finder

Florida's dependency statutes, court rules and DCF operating procedures, with the appellate opinions that apply them

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§ 39.9221 Former number


Each citation is matched to today's text through the statutes the opinion applied (1997 on), so renumbered subsections land in the right place; those show "Cited as".

§ 39.9221 isn't in the 2026 Florida Statutes. No current section names it as a former number; many pre-1998 numbers were delinquency provisions, which moved to Chapter 985 in 1997. The opinions below cite it by this number.

1 opinion cite § 39.9221

  1. S.K. v. Department of Children & Families 50 So. 3d 1182 · 1D10-4921 · 1st DCA 2010

    Reversed & remanded This opinion cites § 39.9221 1 time, the section generally

    Permanent guardianships with grandmothers reversed; no competent evidence supported the visitation-based findings and the order lacked case-specific reasons reunification was impossible.

    …for two reasons. C.A. v. Dep’t of Children & Families, 27 So.3d 241, 242 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010); C.S., 41 So.3d at 369 (explaining that section 39.9221(2) “requires case-specific findings”). First, the first clause of the second sentence of the trial court’s order provides that “[t]he parents are not fit to care…

0 admin code rules cite § 39.9221

DCF's rules in Chapter 65C, Florida Administrative Code, that cite it or name it as the law they implement.

No admin code rule cites § 39.9221.

0 CFOPs cite § 39.9221

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No CFOP cites § 39.9221.