In re T.A. CA2/5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

In re T.A., a Person Coming B327380 Under the Juvenile Court Law. (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 22CCJP04155A)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

A.S.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Marguerite D. Downing, Judge. Dismissed.

Panda Kroll, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Jane Kwon, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

A.S. (mother) appeals from the juvenile court’s disposition order removing T.A. (the child) from her custody and placing the child with S.T. (father). We dismiss the appeal as moot. On October 21, 2022, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) filed a Welfare and Institutions Code section 3001 petition alleging, as subsequently amended, the following: “The child[’s] . . . mother . . . has displayed mental and emotional problems, including a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder with Depression, which periodically renders her unable to adequately care for the child. On 10/13/2022, . . . mother was hospitalized for the evaluation and treatment of . . . [her] psychiatric condition. Such mental and emotional condition on the part of . . . mother endangers the child’s physical health and safety, creates a detrimental home environment and places the child at risk of serious physical harm, damage and danger.” At the December 22, 2022, jurisdiction and disposition hearing, mother pleaded no contest to the amended section 300 petition. The juvenile court found mother had knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived her right to trial and sustained the petition. The court ordered the child removed from mother and placed with father—it found that although mother