W.R., THE FATHER v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed June 17, 2020. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D20-0109 Lower Tribunal No. 17-15362 ________________ 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., 939 So. 2d 1118, 1119 (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, 820 So. 2d 1027, 1030 (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). 2