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IN RE VANESSA P.

Docket No. G016898.

38 Cal.App.4th 1763 (1995)

45 Cal. Rptr.2d 760

In re VANESSA P., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. ORANGE COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ADA IRIS JACKSON et al., Defendants and Appellants; PATRICE JOHNSTON et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

October 13, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Van Deusen, Youmans & Walmsley, Ted R. Youmans and John L. Dodd for Defendants and Appellants.

Terry C. Andrus, County Counsel, and Gene Axelrod, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Paoli & Paoli and Sylvia L. Paoli for Defendants and Respondents.

Harold LaFlamme and William R. Roush, under appointments by the Court of Appeal, for Minor.

OPINION

RYLAARSDAM, J.

This is a dispute between aunts over the custody of an orphaned child. After the juvenile court declared the minor a dependent, it awarded temporary custody of the child to the paternal aunt and her husband. Despite mother's nomination of the maternal aunt as the minor's guardian, maternal aunt was only allowed "relative standing" in the juvenile court proceedings. The maternal aunt appealed, claiming various...

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