In re A.E. CA4/2

BACKGROUND

In the underlying dependency matter, plaintiff and respondent San Bernardino

County Children and Family Services (CFS) filed section 300 petitions for the children

(born 2008 and 2010), both initialed A.E., in 2013. A post-disposition status review

report stated that defendant and appellant K.S. (maternal grandmother) was assessed at

one point for placement but was denied due to prior, nonexempt criminal charges. The

juvenile court terminated reunification services for the parents in 2014 and, later that

year, after finding that the beneficial parental relationship exception to the termination of

parental rights applied, appointed the paternal grandmother as the children’s legal

guardian. It then dismissed its dependency jurisdiction and retained jurisdiction over the

children as wards of the legal guardianship. (See § 366.3, subd. (a)(3).)

Eight years later, maternal grandmother filed two section 388 petitions, which are

at issue in this appeal, as well as a petition for probate guardianship, which is a part of the

appellate record as an exhibit to one of the section 388 petitions. (See Kimberly R. v.

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