California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 8 - Dependent Children—Commencement of Proceedings

• Section 325.
  A proceeding in the juvenile court to declare a child to be a dependent child of the court is commenced by the filing with the...
• Section 326.5.
  The Judicial Council shall adopt a rule of court effective July 1, 2001, that complies with the requirement of the federal Child Abuse Prevention and...
• Section 326.7.
  Appointment of a guardian ad litem shall not be required for a minor who is a parent of the child who is the subject of...
• Section 327.
  Either the juvenile court in the county in which a minor resides or in the county where the minor is found or in the county...
• Section 328.
  Whenever the social worker has cause to believe that there was or is within the county, or residing therein, a person described in Section 300,...
• Section 328.3.
  Whenever any officer refers or delivers a minor pursuant to Section 307.5, the agency to which the minor is referred shall immediately make such investigation...
• Section 329.
  Whenever any person applies to the social worker to commence proceedings in the juvenile court, the application shall be in the form of an affidavit...
• Section 331.
  When any person has applied to the social worker, pursuant to Section 329, to commence juvenile court proceedings and the social worker fails to file...
• Section 331.5.
  When any officer has referred or delivered a child to an agency pursuant to Section 307.5, and that agency does not initiate a service program...
• Section 332.
  A petition to commence proceedings in the juvenile court to declare a child a dependent child of the court shall be verified and shall contain...
• Section 333.
  Any petition filed in juvenile court to commence proceedings pursuant to this chapter that is not verified may be dismissed without prejudice by such court.(Added...
• Section 334.
  Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the juvenile court shall set the same for hearing within 30 days, except that in the...
• Section 338.
  In addition to the notice provided in Sections 290.1 and 290.2 the juvenile court may issue its citation directing any parent or guardian of the...
• Section 339.
  In case such citation cannot be served, or the person served fails to obey it, or in any case in which it appears to the...
• Section 340.
  (a) Whenever a petition has been filed in the juvenile court alleging that a minor comes within Section 300 and praying for a hearing on that...
• Section 340.5.
  (a) Whenever pursuant to Article 10 (commencing with Section 360) a social worker is assigned to provide child welfare services, family reunification services, or other services...
• Section 341.
  Upon request of the social worker, district attorney, the child, or the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian, or on the court’s own motion, the court...
• Section 342.
  (a) In any case in which a minor has been found to be a person described by Section 300 and the petitioner alleges new facts or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018