In re Samuel A. CA2/7

Filed 12/6/21 In re Samuel A. CA2/7 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 SEVEN

In re SAMUEL A., a Person B312480 Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 19CCJP00325A) LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

PATRICIA A.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Daniel Zeke Zeidler, Judge. Reversed. Liana Serobian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent. ________________

Patricia A., mother of now-five-year-old Samuel A., appeals the juvenile court’s April 8, 2021 order denying without a hearing her petition pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code 1 section 388 and its May 7, 2021 order terminating her parental 2 rights. On September 21, 2021 this court reversed the March 12, 2020 order appointing a guardian ad litem for Patricia and directed the juvenile court to vacate that order and all subsequent orders from hearings in which Patricia had been denied the right to directly communicate with her counsel, including the court’s orders at the combined six-month and 12-month review hearing (§ 366.21, subds. (e) & (f)) and the court’s order terminating Patricia’s parental rights (§ 366.26). 3 (In re Samuel A. (2021) 69 Cal.App.5th 67.) On October 22, 2021 we advised counsel for Patricia, Samuel and the Los Angeles County Department of Children of Family Services that, in light of our opinion in In re Samuel A., supra, 69 Cal.App.5th 67, we intended to summarily reverse the orders at issue in this appeal unless the Department showed cause on or before November 4, 2021 why we should consider the appeal on the merits. Patricia’s counsel filed a letter brief urging