In re P.L.

Filed 2/8/24; pub order 3/7/24 (see end of opn.)

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

In re P.L. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

D082723, D082853

SAN DIEGO COUNTY HEALTH

AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY,

(Super. Ct. No. NJ15938AB) Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

J.L.,

Defendant and Appellant.

CONSOLIDATED APPEALS from orders of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Nadia J. Keilani, Judge. Affirmed. Jill Smith, under appointment of the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Claudia G. Silva, County Counsel, Lisa M. Maldonado, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Kristen M. Ojeil, Senior Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. J.L. (Father) appeals from orders issued at the contested jurisdictional and dispositional hearing declaring his 12-year-old son, P.L., and 10-year-old daughter, L.L. (together, the children), to be dependents of the juvenile court,

placing them with the children’s mother, H.T. (Mother),1 and giving him liberal supervised visitation. He contends the visitation orders should be reversed because the juvenile court improperly delegated its visitation authority to the children. The…