H.W.

SUMMARY

A mother appeals from an order terminating parental rights to two of her 11 children, T.W. and S.W., who were ages two and a half years and six months, respectively, when they were detained in September 2009. (Most of the other children, bom both before and after T.W. and S.W., have moved, or are moving through the dependency system to homes other than with the mother, who has “an unresolved history” of illicit drug abuse.) Her appeal does not assert that the order terminating parental rights was improper. She makes no claim that the children were not adoptable, or that she has maintained regular visitation (she has not), or that the children would benefit from continuing the relationship. Instead, she contends that she is entitled to challenge the court’s December 28, 2009 disposition order, which denied her reunification services based upon her failure to reunify with the children’s older siblings.

Ordinarily, the mother could not challenge that order unless she hád filed a writ petition after the order was entered (which she did not do). But mother contends that, because the court clerk mailed the written advisement of her writ petition rights to her correct…