Rooting for the mother of your children to win her petition for modification isn’t enough to give you standing to appeal the ensuing order denying modification. Thus, in In re D.S., case no. C055069 (3d Dist. Oct. 31, 2007), the court of appeal dismisses the father’s appeal from the order denying the mother’s petition for modification.
Appellant father appealed both from the order denying mother’s petition for modification and from the order terminating his and the mother’s parental rights. But he never joined in the petition, which the court denied as untimely. Since he did not join in the petition, he is not aggrieved by its denial, which had no effect on any right personal to him.