In re A.B.

Filed 8/24/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

In re A.B., a Minor. D069257

JOHN O. et al., (Super. Ct. No. A60345)

Petitioners and Respondents,

v.

SCOTT R.,

Objector and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Edlene C.

McKenzie, Commissioner. Affirmed.

Lelah S. Fisher, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Objector and

Appellant.

Elizabeth C. Alexander and Neal B. Gold, under appointment by the Court of

Appeal, for Petitioners and Respondents.

Carl Fabian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Minor A.B. Scott R. appeals from an order terminating his parental rights to his biological

daughter, A.B., under Family Code section 7822,1 which authorizes the termination of

rights of a parent who "has left the child in the care and custody of the other parent for a

period of one year without any provision for the child's support, or without

communication . . . with the intent . . . to abandon the child." (§ 7822, subd. (a)(3),

italics added.) He contends that the one-year statutory…