J.H.
J.H. v. Superior Court CA6
Opinion
Opinion
Manoukian, J.
I. INTRODUCTION
J.H., the mother of the child at issue in this juvenile dependency matter, has filed a petition for extraordinary writ challenging the juvenile court’s orders sustaining a Welfare and Institutions Code section 387 petition,1 denying reunification services, and setting the matter for a section 366.26 permanency planning hearing.
1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. On appeal, the mother contends the juvenile court erred by (1) denying reunification services, (2) declaring a mistrial during the hearing on the section 387 petition, (3) failing to ensure the mother had been offered reasonable services, (4) finding that return of the child to the mother’s care would be detrimental to the child, (5) finding that it would not be in the child’s best interest to reunify with the mother, and (6) placing the child in an out-of-county placement separate from the child’s sibling. For the reasons stated below, we will deny the mother’s writ petition.
II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
A. Section 300 Petition On December 30, 2013, the Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS) filed a second…