In re V.G. CA2/5

INTRODUCTION

Father appeals from the juvenile court’s exit and custody orders, after the court found jurisdiction over his children six months earlier based on father’s domestic violence and child abuse. The orders required father’s visitation with the three children to be monitored. Father argues the monitoring condition was not supported by substantial evidence. We affirm as father has forfeited this argument.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The parents have four children together, ages 16, 14, 11 and 91 Father also has an older child by another woman; this older half-sibling is mentioned in the jurisdictional findings, but is not part of this dependency case. Only the three youngest children are involved in the present appeal. The parents were married in 2010. In 2020, mother asked father for a divorce and began seeing another man. 1. Jurisdiction On September 22, 2020, the juvenile court sustained a Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 petition and found jurisdiction over the four children based on father’s domestic violence toward mother, father’s physical abuse of the children, and father’s inappropriate conduct toward his oldest child (the half-sibling).2 The…