California Court of Appeal

Juvenile court's termination of parental rights of mother and order identifying adoption as child's permanent plan is reversed where the court should have selected legal guardianship as permanent plan because peculiar facts of case compel finding that termination of parental rights would be detrimental and support legal guardianship.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/11/2006
• Published 04/11/2006

Judges

• COOPER, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Merrill Lee Toole, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Monrovia, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher Blake, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel, Larry Cory, Assistant County Counsel, and Steven E. Henry, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.