In re T.C. CA2/5

Filed 6/14/24 In re T.C. CA2/5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION FIVE

In re T.C., A Person Coming B317922 Under Juvenile Court Law. _______________________________ (Los Angeles County Super. LOS ANGELES COUNTY Ct. No. 21CCJP02729D) DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

O.V.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Craig S. Barnes, Judge. Dismissed. James W. Haworth, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Jacklyn K. Louie, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ________________________________

O.V. (mother) appealed the juvenile court’s order exercising jurisdiction over her youngest son (T.C.) and the related dispositional order. After mother filed this appeal, the juvenile court terminated jurisdiction over T.C. and entered a custody order, which mother did not challenge. We dismiss this appeal as moot. (See In re Rashad D. (2021) 63 Cal.App.5th 156, 158 (Rashad D.).) FACTS PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND I. Facts Mother has five children with three fathers. Only one son is at issue in this appeal—T.C. (born in 2016).1 T.C.’s father is T.C., Sr. Mother has three other sons (born in 2012 and 2013) whose father is E.G., and one daughter (born 2021) whose father is A.T. ~(CT 9-24)~ T.C. has lived with his father since he and mother separated when T.C. was two years old. ~(CT 28, 60)~ In 2019, T.C., Sr., filed a petition in family court seeking full custody of T.C.; mother did not respond after being served with the notice.2 ~(CT 924)~ T.C. has had scarce contact with mother, and neither

1 We grant the Department’s unopposed motion to dismiss the appeal as it relates to mother’s four other children named in the dependency petition.

2 The record does not reveal the outcome of the family law court proceedings.