California Court of Appeal

If the government is going to terminate a child's ties to his or her natural parents, there must be reasonable certainty that the child is not going to be left a legal orphan, and there is no harm in allowing the trial court to take a post-judgment look at child's adoptability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/26/2002
• Published 03/26/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paoli & Paoli and Sylvia L. Paoli, Tustin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for the Minors.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Kate M. Chandler, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Benjamin P. de Mayo, County Counsel, and Mark R. Howe, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.