In re E.M. CA2/5

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. The Dependency Petition, Jurisdiction, and Disposition On May 9, 2022, the Department filed a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (a) and (b)(1)2 to protect nine-month-old E.M. (born July 2021). According to the petition, on April 13, 2022, both parents engaged in an altercation with E.M.’s two paternal uncles, during which father pushed, punched, choked, brandished a knife, and repeatedly attempted to stab the uncles in the presence of the child, after which authorities arrested father for assault with a deadly weapon (counts a-1 and b-1 of the petition). The petition further alleged that father and mother had a history of violent

Respondents are mother and the minor child. The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) has advised this court that it takes no position on this appeal.

All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 interactions with each other (counts a-2 and b-3), that father had a past hospitalization for psychiatric illness after which he failed to participate in mental health…