How to check the status of an appeal in CA

Ooh, good to know. I love your signature. It gives me hope! =0)

When I first found out about the website I went to the court to see why I wasn't sent the notice of intent (since I was De Facto). Anyway they said "how did you know there is an appeal". I told them the website and they said that it is confidential and there is no website. It is funny how people who work in the system have no idea what is going on! Good post though. That site is so helpful. If you do not have the case number you can search using the initials of the child.

Yes, this is a great tool to keep up with how the case is moving along (or not, depending on how you look at it). Any time anything happens with the case, they will send you an automatic email saying what has taken place. However, it really doesn't shorten the length of time the cases are in appeals. It just lets you know what happened a little quicker than before. Ours was a "fast track" appeal and still took 10 months to decide to overturn TPR - which is pretty rare, but still happens.When you are really bored and anxious, trying to figure out what's going to happen, you can go into other cases and sometimes read those decision letters too.

That is too funny you mention about reading the others. I read what had to be a couple of hundred while waiting for my sons. I dont even know why. It was such a waste of time - but it was there and I did it. I learned a lot though! They are so depressing! Ours was fast track too and it was over in 6 months. There wasn't even a story like the rest of the appeals (due to Sade C).

I have spent the last 7 months doing this! It became an obsession of mine during this appeal. I went so far as to calculate out how many days it would take for the opinion to be filed. My fingers were crossed for the day before Thanksgiving, but the opinion was filed Tues., the 27th. The social worker told me that it would probably be in January. The case was affirmed, now we wait another 60 days to see if bio appeals to the supreme court! Praying that adoption is complete in Feb.

Almost forgot, I called social worker the next morning, she did not even know it was done!

Same here! We got this email saying something to the effect of "reversed in full", and we had no idea what that meant. Immediately started calling foster agency social worker, county social worker, kids' attorney - none of them had any clue that the appeal had been decided. Our impression going into the appeal was that if the decision was reversed, then the kids would go back that very same day (that's how the social worker explained it to us). So we are sitting there with the kids, freaking out, crying, wondering how they'll pick up the kids, etc. Turns out we are now 5 months past the appeals decision and just now going back to court this Friday to see what's going to happen. Nothing seems to move fast in this process. You can't take it too personally though because everyone working for these kids is so overwhelmed with case loads, that it's really hard to be informed quickly on all of them. We, as foster/adopt parents are often the best advocates for the welfare of these children. We found out the hard way that relying on the system is not good enough. We try to be on top of everyone and everything now that we learned a hard lesson.

OMG no one has even mentioned anything about appealing to the supreme court. I have seen people mention it on here but sort of brushed it off. So is this 60 after the remittitur (sp) from the Court of Appeals is issued? If you know anything please let me know.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much! Our little one's mom just filed an appeal regarding TPR so I clicked on the link. The new appeal was not up yet, but I found one from a few months ago. I had no idea the appeal had even occurred. What I found was a whole bunch of details I had never heard before. I even was able to sign up for email notifications when there is any action with the case number.Thank you thank you thank you!

Ok, maybe I'm stupid but where do you go on this site to enter the case number? I'm in the 4th district and I can't find it anywhere. :hissy:ETA: Never mind... as soon as I asked, I saw the big blue box. LOLETA, again: Ok, maybe I am an idiot. I know an appeal was filed but I still can't find it. Is the case number the same as it was at the county level?

I am also in the 4th District. I got the case number off the court paperwork from before. However, you can search by the attorney's name or other ways. Good luck!

This is great info, I am an adoptive parent and have been in child welfare for a zillion years and never knew this. I would have loved to know that you could access this but I always thought they were confidential too and never even bothered to look. My appeal is so new that it isn't in their system yet, but I will keep checking to see where it is at. In the meantime I am going to look at some of the ones filed on our caseloads here so I can know what's up. And it is true, they are rarely if ever upheld. I can think of NONE in which the termination was done and an appeal reversed it. Services and placement prior to the termiantion are rare too, but CAN happen at a still less than 1% clip.

How long until the case will show up online? TPR was granted six weeks ago, appeal filed almost immediately. I keep checking, but nothing so far...