In re Angel Z. CA2/8

Filed 11/20/23 In re Angel Z. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

In re ANGEL Z., a Person Coming B328421 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ________________________________ (Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 20CCJP04563C) DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Plaintiff and Respondent, v.

D.R. et al., Defendants and Appellants.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Marguerite Downing, Judge. Affirmed. Pamela Rae Tripp, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant D.R. Jesse McGowan, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant A.Z. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Melania Vartanian, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. _________________________

D.R. (Mother) and A.Z. (Father) appeal the termination of their parental rights with respect to their son, Angel Z. We affirm the juvenile court’s order. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In January 2022 Angel Z. was declared a dependent child of the juvenile court pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 and he was removed from his parents’ custody. In case No. B319424, Father appealed, challenging the jurisdictional findings, the order removing Angel Z. from Father’s custody, and the adequacy of the inquiry pursuant to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) (25 U.S.C. § 1901 et seq.). (In re Angel Z. (Aug. 16, 2023, B319424 [nonpub. opn.].) On April 6, 2023, while case No. B319424 was pending in this court, the juvenile court terminated Mother and Father’s parental rights over Angel Z. The instant matter is the parents’ appeal from that order. After the parents filed their opening briefs in this appeal but before the Department of Children and Family Services filed its respondent’s brief, this court filed its decision in the first appeal, case No. B319424. We affirmed the jurisdictional findings and removal order, and we found the ICWA issue moot. (In re Angel Z., supra, B319424.) Father did not petition the California Supreme Court for review, and the opinion in case No. 319424 is now final. DISCUSSION Father argues the termination of his parental rights must be vacated because the underlying jurisdictional findings and dispositional order were erroneous—the same issues presented in his appeal in case No. B319424. Mother joins in Father’s