Removal Orders

Name: In re V.L. et al
Case #: B304209
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 09/01/2020
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings, Removal Orders

Substantial evidence supported removal of the minors under the standard articulated in Conservatorship of O.B., and failure to state reasons for removal was harmless error. Father appealed from the disposition orders removing the two minors from his custody. On appeal,…

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Name: In re S.R.
Case #: B300214
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 03/30/2020
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings, Removal Orders

Where father was convicted of possession of child pornography, there was sufficient evidence to support removal of his 10-year-old daughter from the home. The Department detained the ten-year-old minor based on father's possession of child pornography in the home. The…

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Name: In re G.C. et al.
Case #: E072514
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 04/24/2000
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings, Removal Orders

There was sufficient evidence to support removal of the minors where parents had a four-year history in another state with the same issues giving rise to the current removal. The minors were initially removed from parents based on an allegation…

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Name: In re L.M.
Case #: D075120
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 09/12/2019
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Placement Issues, Removal Orders, Rights of Parents

The juvenile used the proper standard when it found that it would be in the best interest of a 10-month-old child to remove her from her de facto parents and place her with her sister's adoptive parents. Four years prior…

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Name: In re D.D.
Case #: C086808
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 02/20/2019
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Jurisdictional Hearings, Removal Orders

Sufficient evidence supported removing minors from mother on a 387 petition where mother continued inappropriate physical discipline with the minors and refused to allow the Department access to them. A dependency proceeding was initiated concerning the four minors in 2016…

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Name: In re Israel T.
Case #: B286821
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 4
Opinion Date: 11/21/2018
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings, Jurisdictional Hearings, Notice, Procedural Issues, Removal Orders

Jurisdiction order reversed where juvenile court took jurisdiction under section 300, subdivision (b) but struck the words "substantial" risk and "serious" harm, and found at disposition that there was no risk to the children. Father was seen at a suspected…

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Name: In re Julien H.
Case #: B267953
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 10/04/2016
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Dispositional Hearings, Removal Orders

The court's reliance on section 361, subdivision (c) to remove the minor from a noncustodial parent was harmless error. The minor, Julien, lived with his mother and had weekend visits with father. The parents were neither married nor lived together.…

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Name: In re F.S.
Case #: B260760
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 5
Opinion Date: 01/07/2016
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Removal Orders

Juvenile court did not err by holding hearing on 387 petition in mother's absence. Following an incident of domestic violence between mother and father, the juvenile court sustained a dependency petition. After the disposition hearing, the parents were involved in…

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Name: In re Dakota J.
Case #: B264460
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 11/23/2015
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Removal Orders

Juvenile court erred by removing minors from mother where minors were not living with mother for several years prior to the dependency petition. Mother had three children: Dakota, Joseph, and Faith. Dakota and Joseph had been living with a relative…

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Name: In re F.A.
Case #: G051494
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 10/13/2015
  • Categories: 388 Modification Petn., Dependency (300), Removal Orders

The juvenile court did not err by granting second foster parents 388 petition even though minor was erroneously removed from first foster parents. When the minor was born exposed to methamphetamine, the court placed her with the S. foster parents,…

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