CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Dispositional Hearing
.........Admissibility of Social Study
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Parent can’t be deprived of right to cross examine social workers who wrote social studies supporting jurisdiction; due process not regained in absentia by representation.

Foster/de facto parents could not object to admission of social services report at hearing where their counsel waived his appearance and not allowed to withdraw waiver.

Once jurisdiction over minor established, admissibility of social study no longer conditioned on availability of author for cross-examination.

Admission of social study at dispositional hearing without presence of author does not deny right of confrontation; author may be subpoenaed.

Juvenile court must admit and consider hearsay contained in social report in deciding disposition.

Admissibility of social study report in jurisdictional hearings.