In re Javon N.-M. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The juvenile court asserted jurisdiction over Javon (born 2009) after finding that his parents, father and mother, had an “extremely conflicted and toxic relationship” in which they took “their frustration and anger out on each other.” The court ordered father to complete a case plan consisting of (1) a drug and alcohol program, including drug testing, (2) a domestic violence program, (3) a parenting program, and (4) individual counseling to address relationship, anger management, and substance abuse issues. We affirmed the jurisdictional order when father appealed. (In re Javon N.-M. (Nov. 7, 2013, B245939) [nonpub. opn.].) Although father completed a 26-session anger management program, he did not complete the remainder of his case plan. Indeed, the plan was twice modified in ways that ostensibly lessened father’s burden: (1) the individual counseling requirement was deemed completed upon completion of the anger management program; and (2) father was permitted to enroll in, attend and schedule followup individual counseling sessions on issues of cooperative parenting in lieu of completing the 23 domestic violence classes he had yet to complete in…