In re Jan.B. CA2/4

INTRODUCTION

In this juvenile dependency case, J.B. (father) challenges the jurisdictional findings and dispositional orders relating to 14- year-old Jan.B., 12-year-old Jal.B., and 10-year-old T.B., his three children with non-party S.B. (mother). Contrary to father’s arguments, the juvenile court’s jurisdictional and removal findings are supported by substantial evidence. Nor did the juvenile court exceed the bounds of its broad discretion by declining to proceed with informal supervision pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 360, subdivision (b). Accordingly, we affirm.

DISCUSSION2

I. Jurisdiction

A. Governing Principles Under section 300, subdivision (a), the juvenile court may exercise jurisdiction over a child upon finding “[t]he child has suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm inflicted nonaccidentally upon the child by the child’s parent . . . .” Jurisdiction may lie under section 300,

All undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

We resolve this case by memorandum opinion. (Cal. Stds. Jud. Admin., § 8.1.) The parties are familiar with the facts and…