In Re Ulysses D.

18 Cal.Rptr.3d 430 (2004) 121 Cal.App.4th 1092 In re ULYSSES D. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

Walter D., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

No. B170056. Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Eight.

August 24, 2004. As Modified on Denial of Rehearing September 8, 2004. [431] Joseph T. Tavano, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant Walter D.

Tyna Thall Orren, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Pasadena, for Defendant and Appellant Yvonne M.

Lloyd W. Pellman, County Counsel, and Pamela S. Landeros, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Mary Elizabeth Handy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Minors.

Certified For Partial Publication.[*]

RUBIN, J.

Father Walter D., mother Yvonne M., and children Ulysses D. and Lorelie H. appeal from the dependency court's judgment. We modify the judgment and, as modified, affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Ulysses was born in 1998 and his sister, Lorelei, was born in 2000. In August 2002, the Department of Children and Family Services (the department) filed a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 alleging mother Yvonne M. had physically abused Ulysses by hitting him.[1] The court detained the children, but shortly thereafter returned [432] them to mother conditioned on her completing a parenting class. In December 2002, father Walter D., who had been in prison when mother hit Ulysses, was released from prison and moved back in with mother and children. Two months later he was rearrested and returned to prison for an offense unrelated to the dependency proceedings.