In re E.R. CA2/5

I. INTRODUCTION

E.R., Jr. (father) appeals from the juvenile court’s order granting the Welfare and Institutions Code section 3881 petition of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) to modify his visitation with his children E.R., III. and H.R. (the children) from unmonitored to monitored.2 Father also contends the Department and the court failed to comply with their inquiry duties under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA; 25 U.S.C. § 1901 et seq.) and related California statutes (§ 224 et seq.). We affirm the order granting the Department’s section 388 petition and dismiss as moot father’s ICWA challenge.

1 Further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise stated.

2 The children’s mother, A.S., is not a party to this appeal. Father has another child, A.P., with D.P. A.P. is not a subject of and D.P. is not a party to this appeal.

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II. BACKGROUND

On March 1, 2022, and April 6, 2022, the Department filed first amended section 300 petitions as to E.R., III and H.R., respectively. In counts a-1 and b-1,the amended petitions alleged, as later sustained by the juvenile court, that…