California Court of Appeal

A dispositional order in dependency proceedings is reversed to the extent it ordered sibling visitation, where: 1) the visitation order was made by the court following the dispositional hearing in the sister's case; 2) at that hearing, the court did not have jurisdiction over the brother; 3) because the brother's father was not also the sister's father, the court had no jurisdiction over him at that hearing; 4) there was no statutory provision requiring sibling visitation under the circumstances; and 5) no section 388 petition by or on behalf of the brother was filed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/27/2012
• Published 02/27/2012

Judges

• Simons

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marin Williamson, Sharon L. Anderson