M.D. v. Superior Court CA3
On January 16, 2020, the Department filed a section 300 petition on behalf of (then) eight-year-old C.G. (born September 2011). The petition alleged, under section 300, subdivisions (a), (b)(1), and (c), that father’s domestic violence issues and use of aerosol inhalants placed the minor at substantial risk of serious physical and emotional harm. Because the evidence supporting the allegations against father is not relevant to this writ proceeding, we omit the details of his transgressions. There were no factual allegations relating to mother, whom the Department had not yet located. The minor was detained and placed with the paternal grandparents (grandparents). The minor had a close bond with the grandparents; they were his primary caretakers while father was incarcerated.
Mother was located living in Oregon; she appeared prior to the jurisdiction hearing. She and father had been litigating the minor’s custody since January 2015.
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