In re R.E. CA5

Filed 7/27/21 In re R.E. CA5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

In re R.E. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

KERN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF F082283 HUMAN SERVICES, (Super. Ct. Nos. JD139233-0, Plaintiff and Respondent, JD139234-0)

v. OPINION JASMINE J.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Kern County. Raymonda B. Marquez, Judge. Jasmine J., in pro. per., for Defendant and Appellant. Margo A. Raison, County Counsel, and Bryan C. Walters, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. -ooOoo-

Dependency jurisdiction was taken over then two-year-old R.E. and then one-year-old Rory E. At the Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.261 hearing, the juvenile court terminated parental rights and ordered adoption as the children’s permanent plan, orders from which no party appealed. Approximately three months after the section 366.26 hearing, appellant Jasmine J., maternal grandmother of the children, filed section 388 petitions requesting placement of the children, which the juvenile court summarily denied. Appellant appeals, in propria persona, from the juvenile court’s orders denying her petitions. While this appeal was pending, the children’s adoption was finalized, and dependency jurisdiction was terminated. We conclude the appeal is moot and accordingly dismiss it. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In February 2019, the Kern County Department of Human Services (department) filed dependency petitions on behalf of R.E. and Rory alleging they came within the juvenile court’s jurisdiction under section 300, subdivision (b) (failure to protect).2 Specifically, the petitions alleged the children’s mother, S.T. (mother), put them at risk of harm due to domestic violence where she was the perpetrator against presumed father, Matthew E. (father), failure to provide basic necessities, and substance abuse. On February 22, 2019, the juvenile court ordered the children detained from the parents. In the meantime, the children had been placed in foster care. The department’s disposition report indicated mother had provided several relatives’ names for possible placement of the children. The social worker mailed “AB 938 notification letters” to the relatives, including appellant, on February 28, 2019.