In re L.B. CA6

I. INTRODUCTION

A.B. is the father of L.B., B.B., and A.B. IV, the children at issue in this juvenile dependency proceeding. The father appeals from the juvenile court’s orders at a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.261 selection and implementation hearing, although he challenges visitation orders that were made earlier in the case. For reasons that we will explain, we will affirm the juvenile court’s orders.

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

II. BACKGROUND

A. Section 300 Petitions and Detention Hearing On June 23, 2014, the Monterey County Department of Social and Employment Services (the Department) filed petitions alleging that the children fell within the dependency jurisdiction of the juvenile court under section 300, subdivisions (a) [serious physical harm] and (b) [failure to protect]. At the time, L.B. was 13 years old, B.B. was three years old, and A.B. IV was two years old. The petitions alleged the following. The mother2 had two other children: C.R., then 17 years old, and G.T., then nine years old; both lived with the mother and the father. There had been five prior…