Supreme Court of California

The mother's failure to challenge the visitation order in juvenile court did not preclude the Court of Appeal from considering the issue, and the juvenile court can delegate to a legal guardian the decision whether to allow parental visitation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2004
• Published 05/27/2004

Judges

•  KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Wesley Patton for Whittier Law School Legal Policy Clinic as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Kathleen Murphy Mallinger, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Lloyd W. Pellman, County Counsel, Sterling Honea, Principal Deputy County Counsel, and Gary P. Gross, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Ann Miller Ravel, County Counsel (Santa Clara) and Charles W. Nickell, Deputy County Counsel, for Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children's Services as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.