In re A.A. CA4/2
Opinion
Opinion
BACKGROUND
A. Procedural History
Mother has three children: C.G. (born 2009), B.G. (born 2011), and A.G. (born
2020). An earlier dependency case involving mother began in 2020 with allegations that
the children’s father was violent toward mother and that he used heroin and mother used
marijuana. That dependency ended with mother gaining sole legal and physical custody
of the children.
In November 2022 the department received a report alleging mother’s home “was
dirty and appeared to be a hoarding house,” and that mother may have been using
methamphetamine. The department filed a section 300 petition in February 2023. In
1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. “In addition, because ICWA uses the term ‘Indian,’ we do the same for consistency, even though we recognize that other terms, such as ‘Native American’ or ‘indigenous,’ are preferred by many.” (In re Benjamin M. (2021) 70 Cal.App.5th 735, 739, fn. 1 (Benjamin M.), disapproved on other grounds in In re Dezi C. (2024) 16 Cal.5th 1112 (Dezi C.).)
2 March 2023 the court found the petition stated a prima facie case and granted mother
family maintenance services.