Patrick L. v. Superior Court CA5
Patrick L. (father), in propria persona, seeks extraordinary writ review of the juvenile court’s dispositional orders denying him reunification services under Welfare and Institutions Code section 361.5, subdivision (b)(13) and setting a section 366.26 hearing to consider a permanent plan of adoption for his now four-year-old daughter, Serenity. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.452.) Section 361.5, subdivision (b)(13) allows the juvenile court to deny a parent reunification services when it finds there is clear and convincing evidence that “the parent … of the child has a history of extensive, abusive, and chronic use of drugs … and has resisted prior court-ordered treatment for this problem during a three-year period immediately prior to the filing of the petition[.]” We deny the petition.
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