Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. V.M.

*247Opinion

GRIMES, J.

INTRODUCTION

The trial court was not justified in asserting dependency jurisdiction over the child in this case, who had never been abused or neglected by anyone. The child, V.M., came to the attention of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) after her father asserted his right to custody of his daughter, seeking to gradually remove the child from the only home she had ever known where she lived with her maternal grandparents after her mother’s death.

V.M. was seven years old when she twisted her ankle at school and stayed home for a…