IN RE VALERIE A.

No. D047748.

43 Cal.Rptr.3d 734 (2006)

139 Cal.App.4th 1519

In re VALERIE A., et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Antonia M., Defendant and Appellant.

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

May 30, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Sansone, County Counsel, Susan Strom, Chief Deputy County Counsel, J. Jeffrey Bitticks, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Monica Vogelmann, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Suzanne F. Evans, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for the Minor.


HUFFMAN, Acting P.J.

This case requires us to address the question of who is a "sibling" within the meaning of the so-called "sibling exception" to adoption in dependency cases. (Welf. & Inst.Code,1 § 366.26, subd. (c)(1)(E).) In this case the trial court determined that an older, half-sister of the children involved in these proceedings was no longer a "sibling" because she had...

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