366.26 termination hrg.

The father of minor children urged the Court of Appeal to reverse an order terminating his parental rights, not on trial court error at the Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26 hearing, but on subsequent events – the termination of…

Appellant received notice of the termination hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26. At that hearing the court continued the matter because problems arose in giving notice to an alleged father. Appellant did not appear at the hearing and…

Father appealed from a final order vacating dependency of the minor children and appointing guardians. Father claimed that the order was void because of a procedural error committed 18 months earlier, when a referee’s dispositional order on a supplemental 387…

Here, the Second DCA followed the recent decision by the Fifth DCA in In re Sara D. (2001) 87 Cal. App. 4th 661, when it concluded that appellant mother’s due process rights were violated by the trial court’s appointment of…

Editor's Note: Review granted on this case. At a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26 hearing, minor's counsel "led the charge" against the mother, and advocated strongly for adoption. Parental rights were terminated and this appeal followed. On appeal, minor's…

A parent in a dependency case is entitled to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in connection with a parental rights termination order by habeas corpus petition filed concurrently with an appeal from the termination order. A petition…

The trial court erred when it terminated mother’s parental rights in a proceeding separate from the one in which father’s rights were terminated. California Rules of Court, rule 1463(a), requires that the termination of both parents’ rights occur in one…