In re E.D.
El Dorado County Department of Human Services v. R.D.
Opinion
Opinion
Raye, J.
R.D. (father) appeals from the juvenile court’s order refusing to return E.D. (minor) to his custody at the 12-month review hearing. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 366.21, subd. (f), 395.) Respondent El Dorado County Department of Human Services (the Department) agrees that the minor should be returned to father. We shall reverse.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The minor, bom in the summer of 2003, is the child of father and M.W. (mother).- He has three half siblings: R.R., T.W., and M.D. Bom in the spring of 2009, M.D. is father’s child with his girlfriend, M.C. (father’s girlfriend). Half siblings R.R. and T.W. have different fathers.
The minor was removed from mother’s custody in 2009 because of her substance abuse problems and placed with father, but in June 2010 mother regained custody in family court after a domestic violence incident between father and father’s girlfriend. Father was given supervised visitation; he attended the majority of his visits, which were “very appropriate.”
In August 2011 the minor, R.R., and T.W. were removed from mother’s custody because of a drug relapse, and the juvenile court assumed jurisdiction over them.