California Court of Appeal

A parent may challenge the sufficiency of evidence supporting a child's adoptability, despite failure to raise the argument in the juvenile court below; a finding, that a child was likely to be adopted within a reasonable time, based only on "fragmentary and ambiguous evidence," is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/21/2002
• Published 06/21/2002

Judges

• PARRILLI, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Janet H. Saalfield, Sausalito, by appointment of the Court of Appeal under the First DistrictAppellate Project's independent case system, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard E. Winnie, County Counsel;  Nedra A Shawler, Deputy County Counsel, County of Alameda, for Respondent.