C.F.
C.F. v. Superior Court
Opinion
lead Opinion
Rivera, J.
C.F. (Mother), the mother of J.L., R.L., and A.L. (collectively Minors or the children) petitions for extraordinary relief under California Rules of Court, rule 8.452, asking us to set aside the juvenile court’s order *230 setting a permanent plan hearing pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code 1 section 366.26. We shall deny the petition on the merits.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Petition and Detention
In May 2013, the Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency 2 (the Agency) filed a petition pursuant to section 300 on behalf of Minors. As later sustained, the petition alleged failure to protect (§ 300, subd. (b)) in that Mother had a substance abuse problem that inhibited her ability to parent her children and that Mother and the children’s father, E.L. (Father) 3 were not providing their children with adequate food or shelter. Minors were detained. At the time, they were eight, seven, and three years old.
According to the detention report, sheriff’s deputies conducting an ongoing investigation went to a home occupied by two men (neither of whom was Father), and found the two younger children, R.L. and A.L., in their care. The home was found to be in an unsafe…