In re Bella G. CA2/4
Appellant Anthony G. (Father) appeals the jurisdictional and dispositional orders of the juvenile court as they pertain to him. The court asserted jurisdiction over his daughter, Bella G., under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b), due to drug use by the child’s mother, but also found jurisdiction based on Father’s criminal history and current incarceration. In its dispositional order, the court, among other things, imposed a drug testing requirement on Father and limited his contact with Bella to monitored visitation. We conclude the court improperly found that assertion of jurisdiction was warranted, as the facts alleged and found true by the court established nothing more than that Father had a 13-year old drug conviction and was currently incarcerated. Accordingly, we reverse the portion of the jurisdictional and dispositional order pertinent to Father.
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