In re A.S. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Appellants do not challenge the merits of the order terminating parental rights, only the court’s ICWA findings. Consequently, we need only briefly summarize the facts.

BACKGROUND

A.S. was born in December 2023 and detained by police eight months later. A dependency petition alleged parental substance abuse, violence, and mental illness. A.S.’s older half siblings were juvenile dependents, and Mother’s parental rights to one child were terminated in 2018. Father is schizophrenic, hears voices, and threatened to kill his brother in August 2024. Appellants frequently abandon A.S. and are unable to regularly care for her. Mother said she is a “ ‘drug addict’ ” who uses methamphetamine. Father’s whereabouts were unknown when the court sustained the petition in October 2024. (§ 300, subds. (a), (b), (j).) Appellants were denied custody of A.S. at disposition in December 2024. Mother’s reunification

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 services included a drug program, counseling, anger management, and a psychiatric evaluation. Father did not receive services. (§ 361.5, subd. (b)(1) & (12).) A.S. was declared a…