Evan A. v. Super. Ct. CA5

Filed 6/26/13 Evan A. v. Super. Ct. CA5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

EVAN A., Petitioner, F067039 v. (Super. Ct. Nos. 516358 & 516379) THE SUPERIOR COURT OF STANISLAUS COUNTY, OPINION Respondent;

STANISLAUS COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY,

Real Party in Interest.

THE COURT ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS; petition for extraordinary writ review. Ann Q. Ameral, Judge. Nadine Salim for Petitioner. No appearance for Respondent. John P. Doering, County Counsel, and Robin Gozzo, Deputy County Counsel, for Real Party in Interest. -ooOoo-

 Before Cornell, Acting P.J., Gomes, J., and Peña, J.

Evan A. seeks extraordinary writ review from the juvenile court’s orders issued at a contested six-month review hearing (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.21, subd. (e))1, terminating his reunification services and setting a section 366.26 hearing as to his two- year-old daughter, Evangeline, and nine-month-old son, Patrick. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.452.) Evan contends he regularly participated and made substantial progress in his reunification services. Therefore, he further contends, the juvenile court should have continued his services rather than terminate them. We conclude substantial evidence supports the juvenile court’s order terminating Evan’s reunification services and deny the petition. PROCEDURAL AND FACTUAL SUMMARY Evan and R.H. (mother)2 are the parents of Evangeline and Patrick, the subjects of this writ petition. Mother also has a four-year-old daughter, Maddison. Evan and mother have histories of drug abuse. Evan has an extensive criminal history involving use, possession and sale of drugs, burglary, and parole and probation violations. His drug of choice is methamphetamine. These dependency proceedings were initiated in July 2012 when the Stanislaus County Community Services Agency (agency) took then three-year-old Maddison and 18-month-old Evangeline into protective custody after family maintenance services proved ineffective. At the time, mother was pregnant with Patrick and Evan was in violation of his parole. The agency placed Maddison and Evangeline with their maternal grandmother. In July 2012, the agency filed a dependency petition seeking Maddison and Evangeline’s removal. That same month, the juvenile court ordered them detained. Evan