TERESA J. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. C039786.

125 Cal.Rptr.2d 506 (2003)

102 Cal.App.4th 366

TERESA J. et al., Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Sacramento County, Respondent, D.J. et al. Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

September 24, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eisen & Johnston, Law Corporation, Jay-Allen Eisen, Marian M. Johnston; and Thomas Volk, Sacramento, for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Charlton G. Holland, III, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Frank S. Furtek and Theodore Garelis, Deputy Attorneys General for Department of Social Services.

Robert A. Ryan, Jr., County Counsel (Sacramento), Diana Ruiz, Deputy County Counsel, for Department of Health and Human Services.

Elliot K. Sevier for V.F. and B.F.; and Michael B. Hansell for D.J., the minor, Real Parties in Interest.


MORRISON, J.

D.J, the minor, was adjudged a dependent child under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 (all further statutory references are to this code unless otherwise specified). Thereafter, his mother, Teresa J. (Teresa), relinquished him for adoption to a private adoption agency (ICA), for adoption by D.C. and K.C. (D. and K.). At issue in this case is the validity of that relinquishment. Specifically, the question posed is whether the birth mother of a...

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