In In re Mary B

In In re Mary B. (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th 1474, the appellate court analogized a father's motion for a directed verdict after the close of testimony at a contested six-month review hearing to a motion under section 350, subdivision (c), and held the juvenile court had not abused its discretion in continuing the hearing to allow the child's counsel to confer with her client and the child's caregiver and thereafter reopening the case and admitting into evidence a supplemental report from the child welfare agency: "Generally, the better practice is to consider all information bearing on the best interests of a child." (Mary B., at p. 1481.) As the court explained, "The overriding issue was ensuring the child's physical and emotional well-being." (Id. at p. 1482.)