Santa Clara County Department of Family & Children's Services v. Patricia J.

Opinion

MIHARA, J.

Appellants Patricia J. (the mother) and Angelina J. challenge the juvenile court’s termination of the mother’s parental rights to her son Bailey J., Angelina’s half sibling, and the court’s selection of adoption as Bailey’s permanent plan. The mother contends that the juvenile court erred in failing to apply the parental relationship exception to adoption and/or the sibling relationship exception to adoption. Angelina maintains that the juvenile court prejudicially erred in refusing to accord her status as a party at the Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.261 hearing…