In re T.C. CA2/5

BACKGROUND

Family background and history

The family consists of mother, father, and three children: minor (born July 2013), the middle child (born December 2015), and the youngest child (born October 2017).2 From 2014 to 2016, minor was the subject of a prior child welfare case in Nevada, based on the parents’ domestic violence. While the Nevada case was pending, minor lived with T.B. (foster mother) and her husband (collectively, foster parents) for 17 months, after which

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated. 2 The two younger children may have different last names from minor, but in this opinion we will simply refer to them by their birth order. Father is the presumed father of all three children. Father and all three children are not parties in this appeal.

2 minor returned to her parents’ custody.3 Even after the Nevada case closed, the foster parents remained in contact with minor’s paternal grandparents and continued to see minor periodically. The parents dropped off minor at the foster parents’ home for two months in 2017. When mother picked minor up with no notice, and seemed unprepared to care for…