In Re Angelica

Kathleen Murphy Mallinger, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Objector and Appellant.

Lloyd Harmon, County Counsel, Susan Strom, Chief Deputy County Counsel, Gary C. Seiser, Charles Nickell and James Wellman, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner and Respondent.

Carl Fabian, as Amicus Curiae, upon the request of the Court of Appeal, for Minor.

OPINION

FROEHLICH, J. [*]

This is an appeal from a judgment terminating the parental rights of appellant father, after a selection and implementation hearing pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26. [1] Counsel appointed for appellant filed a brief which summarized the procedural and factual background of the case, advised that no substantive issues warranting reversal on appeal could be identified, [2] and requested that this court review the record independently. We decline to undertake this review and hence, no grounds for appeal being raised by appellant's brief, we dismiss the appeal. (See 9 Witkin, Cal. Procedure (3d ed. 1985) Appeal, §§ 508, 530, pp. 494, 514.)

Since we dismiss the appeal because no grounds for appeal were stated, a detailed recitation of the case background is unnecessary. However,…