California Court of Appeal

Termination of parental rights is reversed where trial court erred in narrowly defining the term sibling as used in Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26(c)(1)(E) and thus improperly excluded all evidence regarding the sibling exception.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2006
• Published 05/30/2006

Judges

• HUFFMAN, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Suzanne F. Evans, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for the Minor.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Sansone, County Counsel, Susan Strom, Chief Deputy County Counsel, J. Jeffrey Bitticks, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Monica Vogelmann, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.