C.S.

In this second of two appeals related to minor D.R., the juvenile court denied appellant Alameda County Social Services Agency’s motion to terminate the de facto parent status of respondent C.S. It also granted the application of C.S.’s partner—respondent K.F.—for de facto parent status. The agency appeals both rulings, contending that the juvenile court either committed legal error or abused its discretion by denying the motion to terminate C.S.’s de facto parent status; and that it abused its *856 discretion by granting KJF.’s application for de facto parent status. We affirm the juvenile court’s orders.

I. FACTS

D.R. ’s Placements

The underlying facts of this juvenile dependency matter are set out in a related appeal. 1 We set out the facts pertinent to the issues raised in the matter now before us.

In June 2008, a supplemental petition was filed after then 12-year-old dependent child D.R. was removed from the home of his uncle, C.S., with whom he had lived since he was an infant. C.S. had been D.R.’s de facto parent since September 1997. The supplemental petition alleged that C.S. had inflicted corporal punishment on D.R., leaving marks on the minor’s body. In…