In re J.J. CA2/8

Filed 10/25/21 In re J.J. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 EIGHT

In re J.J. et al., Persons Coming B309700 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ (Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 19CCJP04452A-C) DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

Jason J.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Lisa A. Brackelmanns, Commissioner. Dismissed in part and affirmed in part. Jesse F. Rodriguez, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Navid Nakhjavani, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. _______________________ The juvenile court asserted jurisdiction over three young children and denied their father custody. The mother had left the children with the Department of Children and Family Services because she was unable to care for them. Earlier, one of the children had suffered a facial and ear injury while in the father’s care. The court made jurisdictional findings about each parent. The father alone appeals jurisdiction and the order denying him custody. We dismiss his challenge to jurisdiction as nonjusticiable and otherwise affirm. Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I This appeal involves three children: J.J. (born September 2015), V.J. (born December 2016), and C.J. (born February 2018). The father lives in Arkansas. The children lived with the mother in Arkansas until approximately December 2018, when the mother took them to Missouri and then to Los Angeles. The father did not give the mother money on a scheduled basis for the children’s care because the mother “was not stable enough to even take the money.” He said he bought clothes and other things the children needed. When the children lived in Arkansas, they rarely stayed overnight with the father. Once, in May 2018, J.J. and V.J. stayed with the father for about a week. This was the longest time they stayed with him. V.J., who was 17 months old at the time, had bruises on his face and ear at the end of the visit.