California Court of Appeal

An order dismissing petitions to free a child from his birth mother's parental custody on the ground of abandonment and to independently adopt him is affirmed where petitioner failed to demonstrate standing to adopt, failed to raise a prima facie case of parental abandonment, and the family court did not lack jurisdiction to alter a probate court's child custody order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/28/2006
• Published 02/28/2006

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Dodd & Associates, John L. Dodd, Tustin, and Sharon L. Grier, Orange, for Petitioner and Appellant., No appearance for Minor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Law Office of Marjorie G. Fuller, Marjorie G. Fuller, Fullerton;  Metcalf & McKenzie and Timothy Metcalf, Huntington Beach, for Objector and Respondent.