In re Elijah L. CA2/1

Filed 9/29/21 In re Elijah L. CA2/1 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 ONE

In re ELIJAH L., a Person B313061 Coming Under the Juvenile (Los Angeles County Court Law. Super. Ct. No. 20CCJP05289)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

TIMOTHY L.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Craig S. Barnes, Judge. Affirmed. Joseph D. Mackenzie, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Stephen Watson, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________________ The juvenile court found jurisdiction over Elijah L., the only child of Timothy L. (father) and Leslie M. (mother), under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (a) and (b), and ordered him removed from father’s custody.1 Mother has not appealed from the juvenile court’s orders. Father contends that the juvenile court erred in two ways when it removed Elijah from his custody, but does not dispute the bases of the jurisdictional allegations or the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings. We disagree with father’s contentions of error and will affirm the juvenile court’s orders.

BACKGROUND Mother, father, and Elijah came to the attention of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) responded to a domestic violence report at the motel room where the family was living on August 22, 2020. As of August 2020, mother and father had been together for about three years. Elijah was born in April 2019.