CHRISTINA K. v. Superior Court

Opinion

SONENSHINE, J.

We review a foster parent’s right to standing to participate as a party in a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366 status review hearing. We conclude although a foster parent has no absolute right to standing the court here abused its discretion in refusing this petitioner’s request.

Crystal H. was born on July 21, 1984, and was taken into protective custody in May of 1985. Two months later, in July, her sister Cecelia H. was born and also placed in protective custody. In September both came to live in the petitioner foster mother’s home. That same month section 300,…