361.5(b) Bypass Reunification

Name: In re Jayden M.
Case #: B321967
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 07/27/2023
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings

When considering a parent’s reasonable effort to address a problem from a previous dependency case, the juvenile court should look at the entire time period between when the earliest sibling was removed from the parent’s custody and the current dispositional…

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Name: In re T.R.
Case #: E079291
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 01/18/2023
Subsequent History: Ordered published 1/27/2023
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings, ICWA

Bypass of reunification services pursuant to section 361.5, subdivision (b)(6) was improper where severe physical abuse occurred in a prior dependency case and Father had promptly engaged in predisposition services. The minors were removed from the parents due to domestic…

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Name: In re B.E. et al.
Case #: G058062
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 03/23/2020
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, Dependency (300), Reunification services

Passive resistance to treatment such as a relapse does not satisfy subdivision (b)(13). Parents had an extensive history of drug abuse, treatments, and relapses. The current dependency proceeding was not their first dependency proceeding. They reunified with the minors in…

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Name: In re M.S.
Case #: D075278
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 10/30/2019
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, Dependency (300)

Termination of parental rights was reversed where the Department did not establish that mother's whereabouts were unknown when it bypassed services and set a 366.26 hearing. The infant minor was detained at birth in an El Centro hospital when she…

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Name: In re Cody R.
Case #: D073527
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 12/17/2018
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, 366.26 termination hrg., 388 Modification Petn., Appealable Orders, Dependency (300), Duties/Competence of Counsel, Placement Issues, Procedural Issues, Standing, Writ versus Appeal

Parent had no standing to challenge the social worker's actions under the relative placement statutes where there was no showing that she could have reunified. The child was removed from parental custody after he was found severely malnourished to the…

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Name: Jennifer S. et al v. Superior Court (S.F. County)
Case #: A151627
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 4
Opinion Date: 10/02/2017
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, Dependency (300), Reunification services

Juvenile court properly denied reunification services to parents who made partial late efforts to treat substance abuse problems. The infant minor was detained shortly after her birth due to the parents' substance abuse and history of domestic violence. At the…

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Name: D.F. v. Superior Court
Case #: A146191
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 11/24/2015
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, Dependency (300)

Prior termination of parental rights need not have occurred in California in order to bypass reunification services under section 361.5, subdivision (b)(10). The juvenile court denied reunification services to mother under 361.5 (b)(10), as her parental rights to a sibling…

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Name: In re L.S.
Case #: C075626
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 10/24/2014
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, 388 Modification Petn., Dependency (300), ICWA

The juvenile court abused its discretion by applying clear and convincing evidence standard of proof in order to modify prior order bypassing services. Following removal of the minors, the juvenile court bypassed services to the parents based on their prior…

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Name: In re S.B.
Case #: E058328
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 12/20/2013
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, Dependency (300)

Section 361.5, subdivision (b)(16) authorizes the court to bypass services where parents are required to register as sex offenders in any jurisdiction. In 2010, S.B.'s father was convicted of violating Penal Code section 288, subdivision (c)(1), and was required to…

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Name: In re A.M.
Case #: A136436
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 07/10/2013
  • Categories: 361.5(b) Bypass Reunification, 388 Modification Petn., Dependency (300)

Order granting reunification services is reversed where juvenile court did not make requisite findings under section 361.5, subdivision (c) after infant minor suffered serious injuries inflicted by Mother's boyfriend. The infant minor and his sibling were removed after doctors found…

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