Jesse B. v. Superior Court CA2/3
In this original proceeding, Jesse B. (father) challenges the juvenile court’s order terminating family reunification services with his son, Marvin H., (the minor) and setting the cause for a permanency planning hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26. Father argues no substantial evidence supports the court’s finding that the Department of Children and Family Services (Department) provided reasonable reunification services. We conclude the Department made substantial efforts to provide reunification services to father while he was incarcerated. Moreover, at an 18-month permanency review hearing (§ 366.22), the court had discretion to terminate reunification services and proceed with permanency planning in the absence of some exceptional circumstance showing further services would substantially and positively impact the possibility of reunification—a circumstance not present here. Father also contends the juvenile court deprived him of due process by failing
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