California Court of Appeal

Son was properly ordered removed from the custody of his mother, a chronic paranoid schizophrenic, though she was improperly served and was allowed no opportunity to be heard on the issue of the appointment of a guardian ad litem; both errors were harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2004
• Published 02/11/2004

Judges

•  HUFFMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary Elizabeth Handy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Minor.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Pierce M. Kavanagh, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., John J. Sansone, County Counsel, Susan Strom, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Gina A. Rippel, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.