In Re Meranda P.

By appeal and by petition for writ of habeas corpus, Noeline P. (the mother) challenges the order terminating her parental rights (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.26) to her daughter, Meranda P. On her appeal and in her petition, the mother contends the termination order was wrongly entered because it was the inevitable product of a collection of erroneous orders—detention, jurisdiction, disposition and review—that preceded it. According to the mother, when the superior court made each of these prior orders she was either wrongly denied counsel or was incompetently represented by appointed counsel. We will conclude the mother is barred from raising, by her appeal, the propriety of the orders antedating the termination order and from collaterally attacking, by her petition for writ of habeas corpus, the termination order or the orders antecedent to it. We will therefore affirm the juvenile court’s termination order and deny the mother’s habeas corpus petition. We will also decline the mother’s request that we treat her appeal as a petition for extraordinary relief.

I.

In September 1994, the Stanislaus County Superior Court, sitting as the juvenile court, adjudged Meranda, bom…