In re R.L. CA3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Shasta) ----

In re R.L. et al., Persons Coming Under the C096835 Juvenile Court Law.

SHASTA COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN (Super. Ct. Nos. JVSQ112884201, SERVICES AGENCY, JVSQ112884301)

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

S.L.,

Defendant and Appellant.

Appellant S.L., mother of minors R.L. and A.L., appeals from the juvenile court’s orders on her petition for modification, permitting visitation with R.L. but not with A.L. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 388, 395.)1 As highlighted by respondent, the parties, including

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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mother, stipulated to the orders from which mother now appeals. Accordingly, we shall dismiss the appeal. BACKGROUND Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency (Agency) instituted these dependency proceedings in March 2011 with the filing of a section 300, subdivision (b) petition on behalf of minors R.L. (then age five years) and A.L. (then age one month) as a result of parents’ substance abuse, anger control, and domestic violence issues. The minors were placed with the maternal grandparents. Parents were provided reunification services, but they failed to reunify and reunification services were terminated in May 2012. In September 2012, the juvenile court ordered a permanent plan of legal guardianship with the maternal grandparents for the minors. In July 2016, mother filed a JV-180 petition to modify pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 388 (hereafter JV-180) requesting the guardianship be dissolved. In January 2017, after a hearing, the juvenile court dissolved the guardianship, reinstated the dependency, and placed the minors with mother with family maintenance services. Mother relapsed and began testing positive for methamphetamine on April 7, 2017. Mother did not comply with substance abuse treatment, and in November 2017, law enforcement began getting repeated reports of domestic violence between mother and her live-in partner (who is not the minors’ father).2 In January 2018, the Agency filed a section 387 supplemental petition, and the juvenile court ordered the minors detained. In May 2018, the juvenile court terminated family maintenance services for mother and, in October 2018, ordered a permanent plan of legal guardianship for the minors. In April 2019, the dependency as to minor R.L. was