Placement Issues

Name: In re K.L.
Case #: C079100
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 09/18/2018
  • Categories: Dependency (300), ICWA, Placement Issues

ICWA procedures and requirements were not triggered where Indian child was placed with his presumed father because placement was not foster care within meaning of the ICWA. The Agency filed a petition concerning the minor and his older half sibling…

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Name: In re Maria Q.
Case #: D073296
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 10/23/2018
  • Categories: 366.26 termination hrg., Dependency (300), Permanent Plans, Placement Issues

The relative placement preference under section 361.3 does not apply to a relative's request for placement after the juvenile court has held a section 366.26 hearing and the child remains in foster care pursuant to section 366.26, subd. (b)(7). Y.M.…

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Name: In re M.W.
Case #: E068981
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 08/30/2018
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Nonminor Dependents, Placement Issues

The foster mother's status as a former caregiver did not disqualify her home as a supervised independent living placement. Dependency jurisdiction over the 19-year-old nonminor dependent, M.W., was terminated by the juvenile court in August, 2017. The juvenile court terminated…

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Name: In re S.K.
Case #: E068464
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 04/11/2018
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings, Jurisdictional Hearings, Placement Issues

Juvenile court did not err when it found that the Agency used due diligence to locate relatives before removing a newborn from his mother's care. The minor was removed from his mother at birth due to mother's untreated substance abuse.…

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Name: In re M.H.
Case #: A151964
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 04/06/2018
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Placement Issues

At a 366.26 hearing, the juvenile court did not abuse its discretion by denying request to change minor's placement from his current nonrelative foster home to the home of his maternal great aunt. In a section 366.26 report, the Agency…

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Name: In re Christian K.
Case #: A151695
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 03/21/2018
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Permanent Plans, Placement Issues, Procedural Issues, Visitation

Juvenile court did not err by ordering overseas trip for minor, even if the minor would have benefited from additional therapy before going. Parental rights to the minor were terminated. Paternal grandparents, who live in Denmark, expressed interest in adopting…

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Name: In re J.G.
Case #: D072293
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 02/02/2018
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Jurisdictional Hearings, Placement Issues

Juvenile court erred when it allowed minors to remain in placement with their aunt who failed to provide them adequate food. Minors were placed with M.G. (Aunt) in 2014, after their father killed their mother and was sentenced to prison.…

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Name: In re A.F.
Case #: D072226
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 12/20/2017
  • Categories: Dependency (300), ICWA, Placement Issues

Tribe's letter expressing a placement preference did not modify the statutory placement preference and therefore did not require a good cause finding to move minor to a different family member. At the time of the dependency proceeding, the minor had…

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Name: In re A.K.
Case #: C081545
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 05/09/2017
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Misc, Placement Issues, Standing

Father had no standing to challenge the court's failure to consider relative placement after reunification had been terminated, and even if he had standing, he forfeited the issue by not raising it in the juvenile court. Father contended on appeal…

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Name: In re Carl H.
Case #: A147220
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 01/23/2017
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Jurisdictional Hearings, Misc, Placement Issues

Juvenile court erred when it dismissed dependency jurisdiction and returned the minor to the custody of his father. After sustaining a 300(f) petition alleging mother's role in the death of minor Carl Jr.'s sibling, the juvenile court dismissed dependency jurisdiction,…

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