Nathan E., In re (2021) B306909 B306909; filed 2/22/21. ![[Files/CaseFiles/B306909.PDF]] [Opinion PDF](https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/B306909.PDF) ## Rule excerpts Welfare and Institutions Code section 300(a): adopting In re Giovanni F. (2010) 184 Cal.App.4th 594, 598–600. The substantial-risk requirement remains necessary. > In In re Giovanni F. (2010) 184 Cal.App.4th 594, 598-599 (Giovanni F.), they concluded that “the application of section 300, subdivision (a) is appropriate when, through exposure to a parent’s domestic violence, a child suffers, or is at substantial risk of suffering, serious physical harm inflicted nonaccidentally by the parent.” “Domestic violence is nonaccidental,” the court explained. (Id. at p. 600.) — Nathan E., In re (2021) B306909, slip op., p. 9.