Patrick H. v. Super. Ct. CA21/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The facts and earlier procedural history, to the point of the six-month review hearing, are set out in detail in the Mother’s prior appeal from the dispositional orders entered in December of 2011 (In re A.H. (Dec. 12, 2012, A134387) [nonpub. opn.]), and in Mother’s second appeal—currently pending before this court—from orders entered at the conclusion of the six-month hearing in June 2012 (In re A.H. (A135981).) At the conclusion of the six-month review hearing on June 26, 2012, the juvenile court adhered to the determinations of the Round Valley Tribal Council, expressed in a letter to the court and resolutions, to decline to accept jurisdiction of the case and authorize alteration of preferences mandated by the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) to establish a long- term guardianship of A.H. with “Talisha and Simon M.,” with the “understanding that no adoption will be done.” The court also adopted the findings in the six-month review report filed by the Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency (the Agency). Family reunification services to Mother were terminated; services to Father were continued to the 12-month hearing, as were…