In re Luis N. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. The Family

Sammy N. (father) and Rosalie S. (mother) share one child together—Luis N., born March 2017. In a 2017 order issued upon the termination of jurisdiction in an earlier dependency case, the juvenile court had ordered father and mother to share joint legal custody of Luis, and granted mother sole physical custody of Luis, with father entitled to monitored visitation of four hours per week.

Father has three other children; mother has seven other children who elected to live with their own father in Las Vegas, Nevada because they did not want to “be around” father.

II. Father’s Abusive Conduct Against Mother

Father has physically abused mother for years. In 2017, father “punctured a tire” of mother’s vehicle while mother—then nine months pregnant with Luis—was inside the vehicle. This is the incident that gave rise to the 2017 order placing Luis in mother’s physical custody and limiting father to monitored visits; the juvenile court exerted dependency jurisdiction, and terminated its jurisdiction with the 2017 exit order requiring that father’s visits be monitored due to his lack of “substantial progress” in the…