In re T.M.
T.M. is now 10 years old. For most of his life, his father, Nathan M. (father), and mother had antagonistic relations, including in the course of contentious litigation regarding custody of and visitation with T.M. There is also evidence that they each engaged in behaviors that contributed to their antagonistic relations and flawed parenting of T.M., including father’s unaddressed substance abuse and mother’s excessive use of corporal punishment on T.M. T.M. was seriously and negatively affected by these years of antagonism and behaviors, and developedserious emotional difficulties as demonstrated by his aggressive and violent misconduct throughout much of his time inelementaryschool.
The Mendocino County Health & Human Services Agency (Agency)unsuccessfully tried to resolve these problems by providing voluntary services to the family for a year. Upon the request by the Mendocino County family court that it consider filing a dependency petition regarding T.M., the
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