In re Amanda B. CA5

DISCUSSION

An appealed-from judgment or order is presumed correct. (Denham v. Superior Court (1970) 2 Cal.3d 557, 564.) It is up to an appellant to raise claims of reversible error or other defect and present argument and authority on each point made. If an appellant does not do so, the appeal should be dismissed. (In re Sade C. (1996) 13 Cal.4th 952, 994.) Here, father does not raise any claim of error or other defect against the termination order from which he appeals. Rather, as previously stated, father claims he did nothing wrong to warrant losing his parental rights and that this violated his due process rights. Father overlooks the court’s November 2013 dispositional finding, by clear and convincing evidence, that to place Amanda with him would be detrimental and its dispositional order removing the child from his custody, as well as the fact that he did not appeal from that decision. Having failed to appeal from the November 2013 dispositional finding, father has forfeited the opportunity to claim he was blameless in terms of losing custody of the child. (In re Elizabeth M. (1991) 232 Cal.App.3d 553, 563.) An appeal from the most

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