Visitation

Name: In re F.P.
Case #: B307313
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 02/24/2021
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Visitation

Substantial evidence supported the juvenile court's finding that visitation between mother and the minor would be detrimental where mother's abuse of the minor caused him distress, and he refused to communicate with her. The minor was detained after telling police…

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Name: Serena M. v. Fresno County Superior Court
Case #: F080612
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 5 DCA
Opinion Date: 06/30/2020
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Reunification services, Visitation

Denial of mother's requests for therapeutic supervised visitation with teenager who refused to visit constituted a denial of reasonable services. The 15-year-old minor, C.C. was removed from mother due to excessive discipline by mother and mother's boyfriend. Reunification services were…

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Name: In re J.R.
Case #: C088052
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 10/25/2019
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Permanent Plans, Visitation

The juvenile court did not abuse its discretion when it terminated dependency jurisdiction after establishing a guardianship for the minor with the grandparents he had lived with for two years. The minor originally came to the attention of the juvenile…

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Name: In re J.P.
Case #: H046491
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 6 DCA
Opinion Date: 07/26/2019
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Visitation

Juvenile court has discretion to order visitation between nonparent and a child where it is in the child's best interest. J.P and his younger half-brother were taken into custody following mother's arrest for driving under the influence. Mother's ex-boyfriend Albert…

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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 Matthew C.
Case #: A147877
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 4
Opinion Date: 03/17/2016
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Visitation

Parental visitation may be denied if visitation would be inconsistent with the physical or emotional well-being of the child. Mother challenged the juvenile court's orders at disposition which temporarily denied her visitation with the infant minor. She argued there was…

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Name: In re T.M.
Case #: C081155
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 11/02/2016
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Visitation

Juvenile court did not abuse its discretion when it denied visitation to father who physically abused minor and refused to address his serious anger issues. The minor was removed from father based on a petition which alleged physical abuse. Father…

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Name: In re Korbin Z.
Case #: B269429
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 4
Opinion Date: 09/19/2016
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Visitation

The trial court erred by ordering visitation with Father at the minor's sole discretion. Father had not seen the minor, Korbin, for nine years when the minor was removed from his mother. After a 366.26 hearing was set, Father filed…

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Name: In re A.J.
Case #: E061153
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 08/04/2015
  • Categories: 366.26 termination hrg., Dependency (300), Paternity/Parentage, Visitation

Juvenile court properly denied visitation to father who was not a presumed parent and where the evidence was sufficient to support a detriment finding. Appellant, the biological father of the minor child in the dependency proceeding, was denied supervised visitation…

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Name: In re Ethan J.
Case #: F070114
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 5 DCA
Opinion Date: 05/06/2015
  • Categories: Dependency (300), Permanent Plans, Visitation

Dismissal of dependency jurisdiction was reversed where minor refused to participate in visits with mother and court made no finding that visitation would be detrimental to him. The minor, Ethan, was in a guardianship with his grandmother, and refused to…

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