In re A.L. CA6
The Santa Cruz County Human Services Department (Department) filed juvenile dependency petitions on behalf of A.L. and S.L. (the children). The children’s mother, A.L. (mother), appeared late at the jurisdiction/disposition hearing, arriving after the parties had completed presentation of their evidence and while the juvenile court was ruling on the request of mother’s counsel to reopen the evidence to allow a social worker’s testimony. Mother was not permitted to testify. The court found the children to be within the juvenile court’s jurisdiction and declared them dependent children of the court. The court decided not to offer mother family reunification services pursuant to several statutory bypass provisions.
Mother appeals. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 395, subd. (a)(1).)
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