In re Z.R. CA1/4

BACKGROUND

This case began when respondent Del Norte County Department of Health and Human Services (Department) filed nine separate juvenile dependency petitions in

1 March 20121 alleging that mother and father had abused their nine children. In jurisdictional orders, the juvenile court concluded that all nine minors were children described by Welfare and Institutions Code section 300.2 Father filed a premature appeal from these orders (A135645). Following a dispositional hearing, the juvenile court adjudged the minors to be dependent children, ordered that they remain out of their parents’ physical custody, and ordered family reunification services. Both mother and father filed a timely appeal from the dispositional orders (A136929), which we resolve in this opinion.3 While these appeals were pending, further proceedings ensued. At the conclusion of a contested six-month review hearing, the juvenile court terminated reunification services and set a selection-and-implementation hearing. Mother petitioned for extraordinary writ review of this order, which we denied. (J.R. v. Superior Court (May 8, 2013, A137755) [nonpub. opn.].) In our opinion denying the petition, we summarized…