N.B. v. Dept. of Children and Families

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed October 19, 2016. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D16-1663 Lower Tribunal No. 15-15719 ________________

N.B., the Father, Appellant,

vs.

Department of Children and Families, et al., Appellees.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Martin Zilber, Judge.

Albert W. Guffanti, P.A., and Albert W. Guffanti, for appellant.

Karla Perkins, for Department of Children and Families; Laura J. Lee (Sanford), for Guardian ad Litem Program, for appellees.

Before SUAREZ, C.J., and SALTER and EMAS, JJ.

SUAREZ, C.J.

N.B., an uncharged father, appeals the trial court’s granting of visitation by the maternal grandmother of his child. We affirm because the record below makes *2 clear that N.B. repeatedly consented to the visitation and confirmed several times that he understood that the trial court was permitting it. Clear Channel Metroplex, Inc. v. Sunbeam Television Corp., 922 So.2d 229, 232 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005) (Waiver is “the voluntary and intentional relinquishment of a known right.”).

Affirmed.