Fresno County Department of Children & Family Services v. Della Z.

Opinion

VARTABEDIAN, Acting P. J.

When a guardian, whose guardianship responsibilities were initiated as a permanent plan in a dependency proceeding, becomes incapable of providing custody for a minor, causing the change of custody to a new party under a permanent plan of long-term foster care, should the juvenile court terminate the guardianship because the guardianship is not permitted by law to coexist with the new permanent plan? We determine that such a termination is correct.

The juvenile court obtained dependency jurisdiction over four siblings, two boys and two girls, due to their…