In re A.S. CA1/4

I. BACKGROUND

The Minors were removed from parental custody in April 2020 after the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) filed petitions under section 300 alleging domestic violence between the parents, failure to provide for the basic needs of the children (including food, clothing, shelter, and medical treatment), and substance abuse by the parents. The two older children—the twin boys, A.S. and D.S.—were the subjects of a previous dependency proceeding from June 2017 to May 2018 (prior to their younger sister’s birth) arising from allegations of parental substance abuse and failure to provide for the children’s needs. In that earlier case, the parents reunified with the boys after receiving family reunification and family maintenance services. After being removed from parental custody in the second dependency proceeding in early 2020, the Minors were placed in the same resource home where the boys had been placed for seven months during the first dependency. An amended dependency petition filed in May 2020 alleged: “[Mother and Father] maintain a chaotic household evidenced by police contacts and allegations of physical conflict between the…