In re Matthew M. CA2/7

DISCUSSION

A. Mootness and Dependency Appeals “A court is tasked with the duty ‘ “to decide actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions, or to declare principles or rules of law which cannot affect the matter in issue in the case before it.” ’ ” (D.P., supra, 14 Cal.5th at p. 276.) “A case becomes moot when events ‘ “render[ ] it impossible for [a] court, if it should decide the case in favor of [the

The Department’s request for judicial notice of the juvenile court’s custody order and the July 26 and August 7, 2024 minute orders is granted. (See Evid. Code, §§ 452, subds. (c)-(d), 459; In re J.R. (2022) 82 Cal.App.5th 569, 579.) We requested, and the parties submitted, supplemental briefing on whether we should dismiss Mother’s appeal as moot in light of the juvenile court’s termination of jurisdiction with an award of sole legal and physical custody to Mother.

3 appellant], to grant him [or her] any effect[ive] relief.” ’ ” (Ibid., third and fourth brackets added; accord, In re Gael C. (2023) 96 Cal.App.5th 220, 264.) Relief is “effective” where a party complains of…