California Court of Appeal

In dependency proceedings, juvenile court's jurisdictional and dispositional findings are affirmed where: 1) the application of section 300(a) is appropriate when, through exposure to a parent's domestic violence, a child suffers, or is at substantial risk of suffering, serious physical harm inflicted nonaccidentally by the parent, and here, there was a substantial evidence supporting the section 300(a) jurisdictional finding; 2) the court did not abuse its discretion in granting the maternal grandmother's de facto parent status; and 3) with respect to a Marsden hearing, there was no error and it was not an abuse of discretion to deny continuance.

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• Decided 05/11/2010
• Published 05/11/2010

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• California Court of Appeal

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