Case 000533

Error and/or relief

When a minor is not removed from the custody of the parents, it is error for the court to declare the maximum confinement time the minor faces.

Holding:

Because the court did not remove the minor from the custody of his parents and instead ordered him to reside in his mother’s custody, the court should not have specified a maximum time of confinement in its dispositional order. Accordingly, we will modify the dispositional order to strike the provision setting a maximum confinement time.

Authority:

WIC 726(d)(1)

In re G.C. (2020) 8 Cal.5th 1119, 1129

In re P.A. (2012) 211 Cal.App.4th 23, 32

In re Matthew A. (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 537, 541

In re A.C. (2014) 224 Cal.App.4th 590, 592