Darnell M. v. Superior Court

Filed 8/1/06 Darnell M. v. Superior Court CA2/3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS in mandate. Jan Levine, Judge. Petition for extraordinary writ relief is denied.

Linda Simmons, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel, Larry Cory, Assistant County Counsel, and Judith A. Luby, for Real Party in Interest.

In this juvenile dependency case, Darnell M. Sr., the father of the subject minor child (Father), has petitioned this court for extraordinary writ relief from an order the dependency court made at a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.21, subdivision (e) six-month review hearing.[1] At that hearing, the court (1) denied Father's request to set a hearing on the issue whether Father's family reunification services should be continued, (2) terminated Father's reunification services, (3) set this case for a section 366.26 permanent planning hearing, and (4) ordered the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services to look into the possibility that either of two of the minor child's relatives would adopt him.

Father contends the court should have set the case for a contested six-month review hearing, and further contends the court erred when it did not set a hearing on the matter of relative placement. Los Angeles County's Office of the County Counsel, on behalf of real party in interest the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, has filed a â€