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Filed 2/5/24 In re Isaiah E. CA2/7
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                        SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                     DIVISION SEVEN

In re ISAIAH E., a Person Coming                              B325548
Under the Juvenile Court Law.
                                                               (Los Angeles County
                                                               Super. Ct. No. 22CCJP00874)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN
AND FAMILY SERVICES,

              Plaintiff and Respondent,

         v.

F.E.,

         Defendant and Appellant.

     APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles
County, Mary E. Kelly, Judge. Reversed.
      Benjamin Ekenes, under appointment by the Court of
Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
      Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy,
Assistant County Counsel, and William D. Thetford, Principal
Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
                    ________________________

      In this dependency appeal, mother F.E. appeals from the
juvenile court’s November 2022 custody and visitation exit orders
granting her sole physical and legal custody of her son Isaiah E.
(born November 2021) and giving Isaiah’s father, Marc G.,
certain visitation rights. On November 7, 2023, in a prior appeal
brought by F.E., we reversed the juvenile court’s jurisdiction
finding. Accordingly, we now reverse the juvenile court’s
November 2022 exit orders in this case and direct the court to
vacate the orders.
      As explained in our prior opinion, the juvenile court
sustained a dependency petition pursuant to Welfare and
Institutions Code1 section 300, section (b)(1) (failure to protect),
in March 2022 on behalf of Isaiah based on two incidents of
domestic violence inflicted on F.E. by Marc. F.E. appealed the
jurisdiction finding and disposition order, contending there was
insufficient evidence to support a finding Isaiah was at
substantial risk of serious physical harm by the time of the
jurisdiction hearing. We agreed and reversed. (In re Isaiah E.
(Nov. 7, 2023, B320238) [nonpub. opn.].)

1     Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and
Institutions Code.

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       While the appeal in case No. B320238 was pending, on
November 10, 2022 the juvenile court terminated jurisdiction and
stayed its order pending receipt of a juvenile custody order
granting sole legal and sole physical custody to F.E. and
monitored visitation to Marc. On November 17 the court received
and issued the juvenile custody order. F.E. timely appealed from
both orders.
       F.E. contends, the Los Angeles County Department of
Children and Family Services (Department) concedes, and we
agree that because this court reversed the jurisdiction finding,
the juvenile court’s subsequent November 2022 exit orders must
be reversed and vacated. (See In re R.M. (2009) 175 Cal.App.4th
986, 991 [in light of the appellate court’s reversal of the
jurisdiction order, “all subsequent orders . . . must be reversed as
well”]; cf. In re A.S. (2009) 174 Cal.App.4th 1511, 1514 [once
jurisdiction terminates, subsequent juvenile court orders are void
and must be stricken].)

                         DISPOSITION

      The juvenile court’s custody and visitation exit orders are
reversed, and the juvenile court is directed to vacate its
November 2022 orders.

                                      MARTINEZ, J.
We concur:

      SEGAL, Acting P. J.                  FEUER, J.

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