In re A.G. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

We summarize only those facts relevant to our disposition of this appeal.

1. The original dependency petition, the juvenile court’s order declaring father A.G.’s presumed father, the November 6, 2023 jurisdictional and dispositional rulings, and the dismissal of father’s appeal from the November 6, 2023 rulings In June 2023, DCFS filed a petition pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code2 section 300 concerning A.G., a child who

Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

3 was born in November 2007. The juvenile court later designated father as A.G.’s presumed father. The juvenile court held the adjudication and disposition hearing on November 6, 2023. The court amended the operative dependency petition by interlineation, sustained the amended allegations against father, and assumed dependency jurisdiction over A.G. pursuant to section 300, subdivisions (b), (c), and (d).3 As amended by the juvenile court, the petition alleged father (1) sexually abused an unrelated 15-year-old child in the residence father shared with A.G., (2) supplied the unrelated child and A.G. with marijuana, and (3) possessed child pornography. Before it…