In re T.G. CA1/5

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The minor was born in November 2010. At the time plaintiff and respondent Marin County Health and Human Services (Department) became involved in 2021, the minor lived with his mother, N.S. (Mother). The Department filed a section 300 petition that alleged severe neglect by Mother and a failure to protect by Father because he “failed to seek legal custody or take other actions to ensure [the minor’s] basic needs were met.” A. Initial Proceedings and Appeals The parties submitted to jurisdiction in January 2022, based on an amended petition alleging that Father negligently failed to adequately protect the minor from Mother. The juvenile court placed the minor in a Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Placement (STRTP). In its February 2022 disposition order, the juvenile court declined to place the minor in Father’s care on the ground it would have been to the minor’s detriment. (§ 361.2.) The court approved a case plan by which Father would show he had safe and sustainable housing for the minor, identify a support network of at least three people who could help him care for the minor, demonstrate that his home was free from drugs and alcohol, submit…