DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. SUPERIOR COURT OF SISKIYOU COUNTY

Docket Nos. C024898, C025067.

58 Cal.App.4th 721 (1997)

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, Respondent; SISKIYOU COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES et al., Real Parties in Interest. In re THEODORE D. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JENNIFER DEVINE, as Court Appointed Special Advocate, etc., Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

October 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Charlton G. Holland III, Assistant Attorneys General, Dennis Eckhart and Frank S. Furtek, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant and for Petitioner.

Michael D. Thamer for Defendant and Respondent and for Real Parties in Interest.

No appearance for Respondent.

Don Langford, County Counsel, for Real Parties in Interest.

Janet H. Saalfield, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Minors.


OPINION

SCOTLAND, J.

In this consolidated appeal and petition for writ of mandate, we address whether the juvenile court has authority to independently determine the appropriate interim placement of minors pending their adoption after the court has terminated parental rights and referred the minors to the Department of Social Services (DSS) for adoptive placement, or whether DSS has the sole authority to determine such placement,...

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