CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Dispositional Hearing
.........Dependency With Removal
............Case Plan/Placement Order
6 Cards On This Topic:

No error in removing C from mother's custody ••before•• placing him with F—it is axiomatic that a court cannot award custody to a noncustodial parent without first removing him/her from the custodial parent.

Written case plan required when minor placed out of home.

Juvenile court may make any reasonable order for care and supervision of a dependent child who admits prior drug-abuse problem to submit to drug test if the staff of her group home believes she is under influence of drugs.

Welf. & Inst. Code §361 finding of substantial danger to M's physical/emotional health & no reasonable means to protect inconsistent with simultaneous order granting a 60-day visit with mother.

Order declaring Ms dependents of court in care and custody of DHHS, to be temporarily placed in mother’s home, invalid.

Court may make general, rather than specific, placement order for dependent children.