In re M.M.
In three separate appeals filed over the course of eight months, maternal grandparents Stephanie and Paul K., (Stephanie, Paul, maternal grandparents, or appellants) seek reversal of a number of juvenile court orders related to the dependency of their three-year-old granddaughter M.M. The orders appealed include two denials of petitions for Welfare and Institutions Code[1]section 388 hearings, two denials of petitions for de facto parent status, and an order continuing the suspension of their visitation with the child. M.M.s appellate counsel urges us to affirm all the appealed orders. Respondent Riverside County Department of Public Social Services (Respondent or the Department) argues vigorously in its latest reply brief that in view of M.M.s March 1, 2007, adoption, all the appeals are moot and should be dismissed. Court conclude that appellants appeals are indeed moot in that we are unable to grant effective relief. Court therefore dismiss them. As Court explain, however, even if appellants claims were not moot Court would find them meritless.
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