The California Appellate Courts decide that a jury trial option in a family or a juvenile dependency courts is not a “Matter of Right” (1885-1899) leaving jury trials as an “option” in California family and juvenile dependency courts. Every single judge has denied every single parent who was asked for a jury trial to date. The game is afoot to start allowing a jury as an advisory panel to the judge but with no power to protect a parent from losing legal rights of their child to the other parent or the state. These “sham” advisory juries are essentially the same thing as a grand jury which every county in California uses to help make change.