CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Dispositional Hearing
.........Appellate Review
11 Cards On This Topic:
  • Dispositional order is appealable order.
  • Mother can't appeal disposition order rather than file writ petition, because zip code was missing from the mailed writ advisement, where she wasn't present for oral advisement and no evidence she didn't receive written advisement.
  • Mother has standing to appeal portions of disposition order ordering non-parties to participate in sex abuse counseling as orders are integral part of disposition plan and impact prospects for her reunifying with C.
  • Order denying reunification services without setting W&IC 366.26 hearing is immediately appealable; failure to appeal is waiver.
  • Dispositional order constitutes appealable judgment; failure to appeal constitutes waiver.
  • Mother’s in-court submission on social worker’s recommendation waives right to challenge findings and orders removing minors from her custody.
  • Dismissal of dependency at dispositional hearing does not render case moot so as to prevent review of findings on which custody and visitation orders based.
  • Appeal from jurisdictional and dispositional orders moot after order terminating jurisdiction of juvenile court final and case transferred to Superior Court (Welf. & Inst. Code §362.4).
  • Orders entered after periodic review hearings are all appealable as orders after judgment.
  • Appellate review of order terminating parental rights.
  • Appellate review as it relates to the dispositional hearing.