San Francisco Department of Social Services v. Liana M.

Opinion

PHELAN, J.

This juvenile dependency action commenced in January 1991 with the filing of a petition, under Welfare and Institutions Code *93section 300, subdivision (c),1 by the San Francisco Department of Social Services (the department). At that time appellant, Liana M., and her now-former husband, Edward M., were in the midst of a contentious divorce and custody dispute over their children, Katherine and Patrick. In this, her second appeal from orders of the juvenile court, appellant seeks review of an order of the juvenile court terminating its jurisdiction and dismissing dependency…