Adoption of E.A.











Filed 10/18/10 Adoption of E.A. CA4/2









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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF >CALIFORNIA >



FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT



DIVISION TWO






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Adoption of E.A. et al., Minors.
L.A., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. N.M., Defendant and Appellant.	E050014 (Super.Ct.Nos. RIA019714 & RIA019715) OPINION

APPEAL
from the Superior Court
of Riverside
County. John F.
Kraetzer, Judge. (Retired judge of the
Alameda Super. Ct., assigned by
the Chief Justice pursuant to art. VI, § 6 of the Cal.
Const.) Reversed with directions.

Diana
W. Prince, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.

Liana
Serobian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Plaintiff and
Respondent.

During
family law child custody proceedings
between the parents, the paternal grandmother, L.A.
(grandmother), intervened and was awarded custody of the children, E.A. and
A.A. in 2007, and mother, N.M. (mother), was granted supervised
visitation. E.F.A. (father) died in
November 2007. In April 2008,
grandmother petitioned to terminate the parental rights of mother, in order to
adopt her grandchildren. Following a
bench trial, the court found that mother had abandoned the children by not
availing herself of all visitation opportunities although she exercised
visitation and made frequent telephone calls, and that she had failed to
support the children.

Mother appeals,
challenging the court's characterization of her contacts as â€