LOS ANGELES CTY. DEPT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVS. v. SUPERIOR CT

Docket No. B116813.

63 Cal.App.4th 1299 (1998)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Respondent; JUAN S. et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

May 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

DeWitt W. Clinton, County Counsel, Joe Ben Hudgens, Principal Deputy County Counsel, and James Paul Leighton, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner.

Kenneth Sherman and Steven Shenfeld for Minor.

Stephen L. Anderson and Janet Foley Doyle for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

NEAL, J.

SUMMARY

This case concerns whether a dependent infant should be returned to the custody of his criminally insane parents, one of whom killed a prior child. Without receiving or weighing expert evidence, and based solely on a caseworker's summary description of experts' opinions, the trial court ordered that the parents have unmonitored visits with the child. This order was not supported by a preponderance...

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