CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Dispositional Hearing
.........Appellate Review
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Dispositional order is appealable order.

While court did not advise Mother of her right to challenge jurisdictional and dispositional orders by writ, this did not confer standing to appeal where the record showed she had actual notice of her right.

Court of Appeal disapproves of the use of a habeas writ to challenge juvenile ct.'s order regarding child's placement.

Where juvenile ct. refuses to assert dependency jurisdiction over minor, and then minor reaches age of majority, minor's appeal of juvenile ct.'s refusal is moot.

Mother can't appeal disposition order rather than file writ petition, because zip code was missing from the mailed writ advisement, where she wasn't present for oral advisement and no evidence she didn't receive written advisement.

Mother has standing to appeal portions of disposition order ordering non-parties to participate in sex abuse counseling as orders are integral part of disposition plan and impact prospects for her reunifying with C.

Order denying reunification services without setting W&IC 366.26 hearing is immediately appealable; failure to appeal is waiver.

Dispositional order constitutes appealable judgment; failure to appeal constitutes waiver.

Mother’s in-court submission on social worker’s recommendation waives right to challenge findings and orders removing minors from her custody.

Dismissal of dependency at dispositional hearing does not render case moot so as to prevent review of findings on which custody and visitation orders based.

Appeal from jurisdictional and dispositional orders moot after order terminating jurisdiction of juvenile court final and case transferred to Superior Court (Welf. & Inst. Code §362.4).

Orders entered after periodic review hearings are all appealable as orders after judgment.

Appellate review of order terminating parental rights.

Appellate review as it relates to the dispositional hearing.