In re Z.S. CA2/2

Filed 12/23/25 In re Z.S. CA2/2 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

In re Z.S. et al., Persons Coming B345939 Under the Juvenile Court Law. LOS ANGELES COUNTY Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN Super. Ct. No. 21LJJP00490E, F AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

A.S.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Jennifer W. Baronoff, Commissioner. Affirmed. Jamie A. Moran, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Brian Mahler, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

Mother A.S. challenges the juvenile court’s order granting the petition of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to require a monitor for her visits with her minor children Z.S. and N.S. Mother’s sole ground for appeal concerns compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA; 25 U.S.C. § 1901 et seq.) and the California Indian Child Welfare Act (Cal-ICWA; Welf. & Inst. Code,1 § 224 et seq.). As Mother fails to identify any such error in the order appealed, we affirm. BACKGROUND We limit our recitation of the facts to those relevant to the matter before the court. The juvenile court exercised jurisdiction over the children pursuant to a section 300 petition filed in October 2023. The petition alleged the children’s father had recently murdered the children’s two other siblings, and inflicted serious injuries on the surviving children, after Mother allowed Father access to the family in violation of a prior custody order. Father was arrested, the children were detained from Mother and Father and placed in foster care, and the court ordered only monitored visitation for Mother. The court sustained the petition in April 2024. On March 27, 2024, the juvenile court entered an interim order in the adjudication hearing. That order gave DCFS authority to liberalize Mother’s visitation to unmonitored with approval of the court. It also contains the only ICWA finding Mother references in her opening (and only) appellate brief. The juvenile court found ICWA inapplicable on the record then before it.