CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Periodic Review Hearings
.........Reasonable Services Provided
9 Cards On This Topic:

Evidence that child placed with foster family that’s eligible to adopt, or placed in a preadoptive home shall not be deemed failure to provide or offer reasonable services.

F was provided reasonable visitation while in jail although visitation later found detrimental to C; he did not receive reasonable services during 3-mo. period he was confined in residential drug rehab.

Court did not err in setting W&IC 366.26 hearing where incarcerated F, a spectral presence throughout the case, made no "significant and consistent progress" in programs and services offered.

Juv. court properly found F was given reasonable reunif. services where SW did all required under circs — F didn't follow 1st case plan, nor disclose whereabouts or incarceration, and began following new case plan too late.

Reunification services provided mother were reasonable and addressed issues pertinent to dependency; mother's real problem was lack of initiative to consistently take advantage of those services.

Substantial evidence supports court’s decision that return of M to F who didn’t contact him for first 13 mos of life would create substantial risk of detriment.

Drug addicted mother was provided reasonable reunification services.

Reunification services sufficient despite foster home being 50 miles from father’s home; factual determinations supported by substantial evidence.

Termination of reunification services proper based upon services already provided.