Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Ebony J.

Ebony J.’s (Mother’s) daughter, Jasmine P. (Jasmine), was placed in a legal guardianship with Jasmine’s paternal grandmother (Grandmother). The order creating the legal guardianship did not specifically provide for any visitation between Mother and Jasmine. Mother contends that this was error, and seeks reversal of the order for that reason. We conclude there was no error, and affirm.

*619 Factual and Procedural Background

Given the simple, primarily legal issue raised by this appeal, there is no need to go into all the facts related to Mother’s involvement in the dependency system. The facts relevant here are just that Mother lost, and never successfully regained, legal custody of Jasmine, bom in 1996. Mother had left Jasmine with Grandmother; Mother said it was by arrangement while she attended school; Grandmother and Jasmine’s father said there had been no such arrangement, and that Jasmine had lived with Grandmother since she was four months old.

The juvenile court concluded that Jasmine could not be returned safely to Mother, and agreed with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) that the best permanent placement for her was a…