In re A.L. CA3

Filed 4/23/14 In re A.L. CA3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Sacramento)

In re A.L., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court C074320 Law.

SACRAMENTO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF (Super. Ct. No. JD231624) HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

M.W. et al.,

Defendants and Appellants.

J.L., the father, and M.W., the mother of the minor A.L. appeal from the juvenile court’s orders terminating their parental rights. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 395, 366.26.)1 Father contends trial counsel was ineffective in allowing Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) evaluation to be used as justification for denying him

1 Subsequent undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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custody of the minor. He further contends the orders at the hearing setting the section 366.26 were not supported by substantial evidence and he was not properly notified of his right to file a writ petition. Mother joins father’s contentions. We shall affirm the juvenile court’s orders. BACKGROUND In May 2011, the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) filed a dependency petition (§ 300) alleging jurisdiction over the minor A.L. after mother left the five-year-old minor in the care of a family friend without making provisions for the child’s support and the friend was no longer willing to care for the minor. The juvenile court detained the minor later that month. Mother said at the detention hearing that father lived in Oregon. He was present at the minor’s birth, living with mother and the minor for the first 10 months of the child’s life and then off and on through 2009. Father had been ordered to pay $328 monthly child support but never paid. The June 2011 jurisdiction/disposition report related that mother said crack cocaine was her drug of choice, and she had used the drug since she was 13. Mother tested positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine, and cocaine in May 2011. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, agoraphobia, manic disorder, and anxiety disorder. She reported having been diagnosed with colon cancer that was in remission, but cancer was found in her left lung the previous year. The report additionally noted that father’s whereabouts were unknown. The minor said she last saw her father when she was three and a half years old. Asked who she most wanted to live with, the minor replied, “ ‘My mommy, my sissy, my daddy.’ ”2