In re C.P. CA4/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The Los Angeles County juvenile court found true, by a preponderance of the evidence, the allegations of the child welfare petition

1 We are aware California Rules of Court, rule 8.416(e)(1), shortens the time for record preparation and briefing in appeals of orders in child welfare cases “[t]o permit determination of the appeal within 250 days after the notice of appeal is filed . . . .ˮ In this case, there was a motion to dismiss which required additional briefing. This unavoidably slowed the process of the appeal so that our opinion was filed beyond the 250 days.

2 filed in November 2022 by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) on the Children’s behalf as later amended in 2 February 2023 and by interlineation in March 2023 (petition). The petition alleged the Children came within the juvenile court’s jurisdiction under section 300, subdivision (b)(1) (failure to protect) because the Mother’s “mental and emotional problems” and the parents’ “unresolved history of engaging in domestic violence, in the presence of the children” “endangers the children’s physical health and safety and places the children at risk…