Mark M. v. Superior Court CA2/5
In a prior writ proceeding, petitioner Mark M. (petitioner), who was then designated as a prospective adoptive parent for dependent children V.S. and I.S., challenged a juvenile court order removing the children from petitioner’s home. The juvenile court determined removal was in the children’s best interest, and we upheld the court’s ruling. (Mark M. v. Superior Court (Apr. 13, 2017, B278474) [nonpub. opn.] (Mark M. I).) Before our remittitur issued—and without notice to petitioner—the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) asked the juvenile court to modify the findings it made when ordering removal so as to make an express finding it had not made: that petitioner sexually molested M.M., another minor who previously had been in his care. The juvenile court obliged without hearing from petitioner, who was unaware of the Department’s request. Having now discovered what occurred, petitioner prays for a peremptory writ directing t
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