California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 9 - Dependent Children—Hearings

• Section 345.
  All cases under this chapter shall be heard at a special or separate session of the court, and no other matter shall be heard at...
• Section 346.
  Unless requested by a parent or guardian and consented to or requested by the minor concerning whom the petition has been filed, the public shall...
• Section 347.
  At any juvenile court hearing conducted by a juvenile court judge, an official court reporter shall, and at any such hearing conducted by a juvenile...
• Section 348.
  The provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 469) of Title 6 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to variance and...
• Section 349.
  (a) A minor who is the subject of a juvenile court hearing, and any person entitled to notice of the hearing under Sections 290.1 and 290.2,...
• Section 350.
  (a) (1) The judge of the juvenile court shall control all proceedings during the hearings with a view to the expeditious and effective ascertainment of the jurisdictional...
• Section 352.
  (a) Upon request of counsel for the parent, guardian, minor, or petitioner, the court may continue any hearing under this chapter beyond the time limit within...
• Section 353.
  At the beginning of the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter, the judge or clerk...
• Section 353.1.
  (a) At the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter, any person adjudged a dependent child of...
• Section 354.
  Except where a minor is in custody, any hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter may...
• Section 355.
  (a) At the jurisdictional hearing, the court shall first consider only the question whether the minor is a person described by Section 300. Any legally admissible...
• Section 355.1.
  (a) Where the court finds, based upon competent professional evidence, that an injury, injuries, or detrimental condition sustained by a minor is of a nature as...
• Section 356.
  After hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding, noted in the minutes of the court, whether or not the minor is a person...
• Section 356.5.
  A child advocate appointed by the court to represent the interests of a dependent child in a proceeding under this chapter shall have the same...
• Section 357.
  Whenever the court, before or during the hearing on the petition, is of the opinion that the minor is mentally ill or if the court...
• Section 358.
  (a) After finding that a child is a person described in Section 300, the court shall hear evidence on the question of the proper disposition to...
• Section 358.1.
  Each social study or evaluation made by a social worker or child advocate appointed by the court, required to be received in evidence pursuant to...
• Section 359.
  (a) Whenever a minor who appears to be a danger to himself or others as a result of the use of narcotics, as defined in Section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018