H.C.

I. INTRODUCTION

H.C. is the father of M.B., the child at issue in this juvenile dependency case. The father has filed a petition for extraordinary writ seeking review of the juvenile court’s order selecting adoption as the permanent plan at a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.261 permanency planning hearing. (See § 366.28, subd. (b)(1).)

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated. In his writ petition, the father contends this court should vacate the order terminating his parental rights and designating adoption as the permanent plan. For reasons that we will explain, we will deny the writ petition.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Section 300 Petition On October 16, 2012, the Monterey County Department of Social and Employment Services (the Department) filed a petition under section 300, subdivisions (b) [failure to protect] and (g) [no provision for support], alleging that the child came within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. The child was eight months old at the time.2 The petition alleged the following facts. On August 8, 2012, the Department had received an initial referral…