In re M.S. CA4/2
Defendant and appellant, D.S. (Mother), is the parent of M.S., a dependent child of the juvenile court who will turn 18 years of age in June 2022. Mother appeals from the August 5, 2021 orders terminating her parental rights to M.S. and selecting adoption as M.S.’s permanent plan. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.26.) Mother claims (1) insufficient evidence supports the court’s August 5 finding that M.S. was adoptable; and (2) postjudgment evidence that, in September 2021, M.S. had left her prospective adoptive parents’ home and no longer wished to be adopted by them is both admissible in this appeal and undermines the adoptability finding. Thus, Mother claims the section 366.26 orders must be reversed.
Petitioner and respondent, Riverside County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS), counters that (1) substantial evidence supports the August 5, 2021 adoptability finding, and (2) this appellate court
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