In re T.T. CA1/4

Background In June 2019, the agency filed a petition alleging that then two-year-old T.T. came within the meaning of section 300 based on her exposure to her parents’ domestic violence and her mother’s substance abuse. At the jurisdictional and dispositional hearing, the court declared dependency and ordered family maintenance services for mother, including participation in domestic violence and substance abuse services.3 In November 2019, the agency filed a supplemental petition seeking to remove T.T. from mother, after mother took methamphetamine and then checked herself into a hospital for mental health treatment. The court sustained the allegations of the supplemental petition and placed T.T. with her maternal aunt. The court ordered supervised visitation and reunification services for mother. At the sixth-month review hearing in September 2020, the court

2 In light of this conclusion, we do not reach mother’s additional argument that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to grant her request for a continuance of the section 366.26 hearing so that she could clarify the aunt’s preference as to T.T.’s permanent plan. The aunt’s preference and the applicability of the…