IN RE M.K.B.

No. 2D12-6151.

115 So.3d 426 (2013)

In the Interest of M.K.B. and W.S.B., children. O.B., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services and Guardian Ad Litem Program, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 24, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Frankel , St. Petersburg, for Appellant.

Bernie McCabe , State Attorney, and Leslie M. Layne , Assistant State Attorney, Clearwater, for Appellee Department of Children and Family Services.

Laura E. Lawson , Tavares, for Appellee Guardian ad Litem Program.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

We affirm the final judgment of involuntary termination of parental rights of the father in this case. We strike the portion of paragraph sixty-two of the judgment that "finds that the children are at substantial risk of prospective abuse, neglect or abandonment," because it is misleading and unnecessary to support the final judgment.

We write primarily to comment that the structure of the final judgment in this case makes it difficult for...

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