Jurisdictional Hearings

There was sufficient evidence to support jurisdictional findings where the parents' custody order was insufficient to protect the minor and this was not the only basis for jurisdiction. The minor was removed from Mother due to domestic violence with the…

Sufficient evidence supported the findings that parents' substance abuse put minors at risk of serious physical harm and that removal was necessary. K.B., J.B., and J.N. were ordered removed from their parents after mother tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana…

Exposure to domestic violence was sufficient to sustain a finding of serious physical harm under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 subdivision (a). Parents had a history of participating in domestic violence throughout their marriage, including an incident in 2015…

Jurisdiction finding was reversed because a parent's violent criminal record, without more, does not necessarily establish the requisite risk of physical harm to a minor. The minor J.N. was detained when his infant half-sibling tested positive for marijuana at birth.…

Reversal of adjudication and disposition orders was required where the only evidence was that mother used medical marijuana during pregnancy to treat symptoms. At the time of the minor's birth, both mother and the minor tested positive for marijuana. Mother…