Juvenile Transcripts

The Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One has issued a miscellaneous order that supersedes its previous order on the same matter. This order sets forth the requirements for preparing records in juvenile dependency appeals and writs. In all appeals under Welfare and Institutions Code section 395, the juvenile court shall prepare a reporter's transcript containing the following: - For appeals from a dispositional order in proceedings under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, all hearings from the start of the detention hearing through the dispositional order; - For appeals from a review hearing or other appealable order after the original dispositional order, all hearings during the period from the dispositional order, or when applicable the last review hearing, through the order or judgment being appealed from; - For appeals from a judgment under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26 or any other appealable order after the order referring the case for a permanent plan hearing, all hearings from the referral order through the judgment or order being appealed; and - For appeals from orders after a judgment under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26 (such as an order in a post-permanency planning review hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.3), all hearings after the section 366.26 hearing and judgment.