California Court of Appeal

Juvenile court's order granting a Welfare and Institutions Code section 827 petition and thus authorizing the release of the mother's court-ordered psychological evaluation, brought by the de facto parents of the mother's minor children, is reversed as the juvenile court abused its discretion by granting the petition for disclosure of the children's juvenile case files, including the mother's psychological evaluation and supporting documents, as the court elevated the de facto parents' interests to those of the parents, failed to consider the mother's interests and concluded without basis that the children's interests required disclosure of the psychological evaluation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2010
• Published 12/06/2010

Judges

• McCONNELL

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sharyn Leonard, John J. Sansone