CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Judges/Commissioners/Referees
 7 Cards On This Topic:
  • Judges, commissioners and referees in juvenile cases
  • Commissioner properly assigned to act as referee per 2001 presiding judge's order cross-assigning all commissioners as referees in juvenile dependency–no requirement they be named individually.
  • Once juvenile court terminates jurisdiction over dependent child, a subsequent case involving the same child and parent is a new matter for purposes of the time limits for filing CCP 170.6 motion.
  • Referee's order not automatically vacated when rehearing before judge granted—order remains in force until new order made after rehearing original order or per other procedures authorizing court to modify existing order.
  • Juvenile court referee may order CCP 128.7 sanctions in dependency proceedings.
  • Referee's dispositional order committing C to DHHS was not the order removing C from his home and thus did not have to be approved by a juvenile ct. judge.
  • Except for removal from home orders described in Welf. & Inst. Code §249, all orders of referee are effective immediately, subject to rehearing by juvenile ct. judge.