In re A.Y. CA2/5

INTRODUCTION

The juvenile court sustained a Welfare and Institutions Code section 3001 petition alleging that two-year-old A.Y. came within the court’s jurisdiction. On appeal, N.S. (father) contends that juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings as to him are not supported by substantial evidence, the juvenile court erred under section 361, subdivision (c)(1) (now section 361, subdivision (c)(1)(B)) by failing to allow him custody of A.Y. as a non-offending parent, the juvenile court erred under section 361.2 by failing to make a finding that placement with him would be detrimental to A.Y., and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) failed to provide evidence that it considered reasonable alternatives to removing A.Y. from father’s custody. Although A.Y.’s mother (mother)2 does not challenge the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings as to her, and we thus need not address father’s challenge to the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings as to him, we address father’s challenge. We affirm the juvenile court’s ruling that it had jurisdiction over A.Y., certain of its jurisdictional findings as to father, and its dispositional…