In re T.W. CA2/5

I. INTRODUCTION

C.W., the presumed father, appeals from a December 12, 2014 judgment and orders declaring the child, T.W., a juvenile court dependent pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 300.1 The child is the six-week old son of his mother, N.B. The father contends substantial evidence does not support the jurisdictional finding concerning his history of substance abuse. In addition, the father challenges the dispositional order. The dispositional order removed the child from the father’s custody. Concluding the jurisdictional finding is supported by substantial evidence and the dispositional order was not an abuse of discretion, we affirm.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The child was placed on a hospital hold at birth and detained from parental custody, because he was born with drugs in his system. The father and the mother did not live together. Previously, the father had lost custody of his three older children (“half-siblings”) from a previous relationship. From 2001 to 2004, the father’s son, C., was a dependent of the court. The dependency order resulted from the father’s domestic violence in the presence of C. on numerous occasions. C. was returned to…