In re P.G. CA5

DISCUSSION

An appealed-from judgment or order is presumed correct. (Denham v. Superior Court (1970) 2 Cal.3d 557, 564.) It is up to an appellant to raise claims of reversible error or other defect and present argument and authority on each point made. If an appellant does not do so, the appeal should be dismissed. (In re Sade C. (1996) 13 Cal.4th 952, 994.) Here, mother does not raise any claim of error or other defect against the termination order from which she appeals. Instead, she criticizes the department’s social worker for not providing her with proper services. In other words, she challenges the juvenile court’s November 2012

3 finding that the department provided her reasonable reunification services. On this appeal, mother is not entitled to raise any issue regarding the November 2012 decision, unless she first sought extraordinary writ review from this court. (§ 366.26, subd. (l); In re Merrick V. (2004) 122 Cal.App.4th 235, 247.) Because mother did not file an extraordinary writ petition to seek review of the juvenile court’s November 2012 decision, she has forfeited the argument she makes now. (Ibid.) Of the many private and public concerns which collide in a…