In re Q.M.
The statutory scheme governing juvenile dependency proceedings requires dependency courts to return dependent minors to their parents after 18 months of reunification services unless doing so would cause a substantial risk of detriment to the minor. In the present case, the dependency court found that no such risk had been demonstrated. The court therefore ordered that custody of the minor be transferred to the minors father from her maternal grandparents and de facto parents, who had been the minors primary caretakers since her birth. The maternal grandparents appeal, arguing that the trial court erred in finding lack of detriment, because the minor was more attached to them than to her father. Court conclude that substantial evidence supported the dependency courts finding that there was no risk of detriment to minor from being placed in fathers custody. Court therefore affirm.
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