IN RE STEPHANIE M.

Docket No. S030816.

7 Cal.4th 295 (1994)

867 P.2d 706

27 Cal. Rptr.2d 595

In re STEPHANIE M., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NORMA M. et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

February 24, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Carmela F. Simoncini, Miriam R. Kennedy and Pierce M. Kavanagh, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Enrique Loaeza Tovar, Consul General of Mexico, and Celia I. Ballesteros as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Lloyd R. Harmon, Jr., County Counsel, Susan Strom, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and John E. Philips, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Janice R. Mazur, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Minor.

Francis J. Bardsley, Public Defender (San Diego), Ana Espana, Deputy Public Defender, De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel (Los Angeles), Larry Cory, Assistant County Counsel, Thomas Lyon, Jeanette Malouf, Lee W. Selvig, Jennings, Engstrand & Henrikson, Debra K. Maurer and Dearing D. English as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent and Minor.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

I. Introduction

The Court of Appeal reversed the order of the juvenile court denying a motion for change of placement of a minor from foster care to her grandmother's care. The Court of Appeal concluded that the lower court's error in ruling on the motion for change of placement also required reversal of its ensuing order terminating parental rights. The minor and the San Diego County Department...

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