CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Foster Children
.........Tort Claims
4 Cards On This Topic:
  • Foster agency met its burden to show it was not directly or vicariously liable for foster parent's leaving C alone in bath where she drowned, P did not raise triable issue to contrary and SJ properly entered for D.
  • County had right to terminate foster care provider's contracts and place its facilities on "Do Not Refer" status.
  • Minor P may amend complaint to make truthful allegations sufficient to invoke equitable delayed discovery rule of accrual, under which his molestation claim would be deemed timely.
  • SJ proper where mother did not present triable issue of fact that County or employees breached statutory duty to child placed in foster home, then murdered at local school.