San Diego County Department of Social Services v. Dianne G.

Opinion

HUFFMAN, J.

At a contested review hearing involving Lee G., who had been a dependent child of the juvenile court for 18 months, the attorney for Lee’s mother, Diane G., made an unnoticed oral motion to recuse the office of county counsel from representation of the petitioner in the dependency action, the department of social services (the Department). Since Diane was under an LPS conservatorship (Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5000 et seq.)(LPS Act),1 and since her public conservator was also represented by the office of county counsel, Diane’s attorney argued that…