A v. v. Superior Court CA2/6

Filed 6/30/14 A.V. v. Superior Court CA2/6 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.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

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SIX

A.V., 2d Civil No. B255472 (Super. Ct. Nos. J069681, J069682) Petitioner, (Ventura County)

v.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF VENTURA COUNTY,

Respondent;

VENTURA COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY,

Real Party in Interest.

A.V. (mother), in propria persona, petitions for extraordinary writ relief from the juvenile court's April 9, 2014, order bypassing reunification services and setting a permanency planning hearing for her minor twin sons, E.M. and Z.M. (the minors). (Welf. & Inst. Code,1 § 366.26, subd. (c).) We summarily deny the petition. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY Four days after the minors' birth in October 2013, the Ventura County Human Services Agency (HSA) filed dependency petitions as to both children alleging

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

that (1) mother had a history of substance abuse and mental health issues that rendered her unable to provide adequate care and support for the minors; and (2) mother's parental rights to the minors' three-year-old half-sibling D.M. had been terminated a month earlier due to mother's failure to benefit from the services that were offered to her. (§ 300, subds. (b), (g), & (j).) The identity of the minors' father was unknown.2 The juvenile court found a prima facie case existed for the minors' detention and set the matter for a contested jurisdiction and disposition hearing. After mother was granted substitute counsel, she filed an in propria persona declaration accompanied by documents purporting to demonstrate she was sober and was complying with her mandated substance abuse and mental health treatment. HSA initially recommended that mother be offered reunification services. The minors' counsel recommended that services be bypassed due to mother's failure to reunify with the minors' half-sibling D.M. and termination of her parental rights to the child.3 (§ 361.5, subds. (b)(10) & (b)(11).) After discovering mother had relapsed, HSA recommended that services be bypassed on the same grounds asserted by the minors' counsel as well as mother's chronic drug use (§ 361.5, subd. (b)(13)) and that the matter be set for a section 366.26 hearing with a permanent plan of adoption. At the conclusion of the jurisdiction and disposition hearing, the court sustained the dependency petition, bypassed services for mother, and set the matter for a section 366.26 permanency planning hearing. DISCUSSION Mother's in propria persona writ petition asserts that a reversal of the order bypassing reunification services would be in the best interests of the minors. In support