In re D.V.
A father and a minor child appeal a juvenile courts orders in a dependency proceeding denying a request to continue the matter to the next year so that an amended statute could take effect, and finding that the exception in Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26, subdivision (c)(1)(D)[1] did not apply. We find that the juvenile courts denial of the request for a continuance was not an abuse of discretion, and that the juvenile court correctly applied the statute in effect at the time of the section 366.26 hearing. We conclude that no exceptional circumstances caused the relative with whom the minor child was living to be unable or unwilling to adopt that child, and therefore the juvenile court correctly found that section 366.26, subdivision (c)(1)(D) did not apply. Court affirm the order terminating parental rights.
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