California Court of Appeal

Orders denying maternal grandmother's request to have children placed with her are reversed and vacated in part where county agency and the juvenile court essentially ignored their duty under Welfare and Institutions Code section 361.3 to properly consider grandmother's request to have her two dependent grandchildren placed with her. The agency did not reevaluate grandmother using the criteria set forth in section 361.3(a), and the juvenile court did not consider those criteria in assessing her as a placement option.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/25/2008
• Published 01/27/2008

Judges

• NARES, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrea St. Julian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Minors.


• For Appellees:
  
• Linda M. Fabian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant Sheena G., Kathleen Murphy Mallinger, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Nina G., John J. Sansone, County Counsel, John E. Philips, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Katharine R. Bird, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.