S.N.
S.N. v. Super. Ct. Ca4/2
Opinion
Opinion
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The Legal Guardianship
On November 19, 2012, the Riverside Probate Court appointed the child’s
maternal aunt as his legal guardian, with mother’s agreement. Mother struggled with
lack of housing and with substance abuse, and experienced multiple failed efforts at
treatment.
Detention
On July 30, 2013, the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services
(DPSS) filed a section 300 petition alleging the legal guardian failed to protect the child
in that she abused drugs, lived in an unsafe home from which she was being evicted,
engaged in domestic violence with her boyfriend, and allowed her boyfriend, who was on
parole for a violent crime and had an extensive drug abuse history, to live in the home
1 All section references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.
2 and watch the child, and her own three children, in her absence. DPSS alleged as to
mother that she has a history of abusing drugs and failing to complete treatment
programs, which resulted in the legal guardianship.
The juvenile court detained the child and placed him with his paternal great
grandmother.