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In re B. M.
In April 2012, the Santa Cruz County Human Services Department (Department) filed a petition alleging the failure of the Mother, S.R., and Father, E.M., to protect and provide support for their daughter, B.M. (now three; the minor), under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (b) and (g), respectively.[1] In July 2012, the juvenile court sustained the petition, bypassed reunification services for both parents, and set a date for the permanency hearing. Shortly before that hearing, Mother filed a petition under section 388 to change the court’s prior order setting a permanency hearing and to request that reunification services be ordered. In December 2012, the court denied her petition without an evidentiary hearing. Immediately thereafter, the court granted the Department’s petition, (1) finding the minor to be adoptable, (2) concluding that the beneficial parental relationship exception was inapplicable, and (3) ordering that the parental rights for both Mother and Father be terminated.
On appeal, Mother contends that the juvenile court erred in three main respects. First, she argues that because she made a prima facie showing of changed circumstances, the court erred in summarily denying her section 388 petition without affording her a hearing. Second, Mother asserts that the court’s finding that the minor was adoptable was not supported by substantial evidence. Third, she contends that the court erred in concluding that she had not met her burden of establishing the beneficial parental relationship exception to adoption. We reject each of Mother’s appellate claims. Accordingly, we will affirm the order declaring adoption as the permanent plan for the child, B.M., and terminating the parental rights of Mother and Father.

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