Opinion
B323236
11-09-2023
In re J.P., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. v. LUIS R., Defendant and Appellant. LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Plaintiff and Respondent,
Paul A. Swiller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Kelly G. Emling, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. No. 22CCJP02390A Tamara E. Hall, Judge. Appeal dismissed.
Paul A. Swiller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Kelly G. Emling, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
GRIMES, J.
The father in this dependency case, Luis R., appealed the juvenile court's August 29, 2022 dispositional orders placing his daughter with her maternal aunt and declining father's request that the child be placed with him.
On September 25, 2023, the juvenile court terminated dependency jurisdiction over the minor child, awarding mother sole physical and legal custody with monitored visits for father, and stayed the order pending receipt of a juvenile custody order. On October 24, 2023, the juvenile custody order was filed, the stay was lifted, jurisdiction was terminated, and the minor was released to her mother.
On October 25, 2023, we sent a Government Code letter advising the parties we intended to dismiss the appeal as moot unless they establish dismissal is not proper. The deadline for responses has passed. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has not responded to our letter. Father filed a letter on October 30, 2023, "submitting the mootness issue to the Court" and stating no letter brief would be filed.
Accordingly, we conclude the appeal is moot.
DISPOSITION
The appeal is dismissed.
WE CONCUR: STRATTON, P. J. WILEY, J.