D.Q. v. Superior Court
D.Q., the father of J., the child at issue in this juvenile dependency case, has filed a petition for extraordinary writ seeking review of the juvenile court’s September 24, 2012 order setting a Welfare & Institutions Code section 366.26[1] permanency planning hearing. The father, a self-represented litigant, requests that the order setting the section 366.26 be vacated and that he be provided with reunification services, visitation, and return or custody of J.
For the reasons stated below, we find that D.Q. does not have standing to seek review of the September 24, 2012 order, which terminated reunification services to J.’s mother. We also find that since D.Q. failed to appeal the March 26, 2012 dispositional order denying him placement, reunification services and visitation, that order is final and we lack jurisdiction to review those rulings. We will therefore dismiss the writ petition.
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