In re H.K. CA4/2

INTRODUCTION

Mother, a chronic user of methamphetamine, has five children who were born

between 1997 and 2011. The present case was initiated in June 2011. The three older

children—S.K. and H.K., twins born in 1997, and M.K, born in 2000—have been under

the legal guardianship of the maternal grandmother (MGM) since October 30, 2012,

when dependency proceedings were terminated as to them. The two younger children—

I.F., and M.S., born in 2006 and 2011—live with the prospective adoptive parent.

Mother and MGM are challenging the finding of the juvenile court made on

October 30, 2012, that the children were not a sibling set. In the meantime, the court

ordered termination of parental rights for I.F. and M.S. on January 10, 2013.1 Mother has

not appealed, making the issues raised in these appeals moot. We dismiss the subject

appeals.

II

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND2

We derive most of the facts from this court’s previous opinion, E056722. The

family was the subject of earlier dependency proceedings between September 2006 and

We grant respondent’s request for judicial notice. (Evid. Code, §§ 452, 459.) All statutory references are to the Welfare and…