Section 624. Evidence  


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  • Only competent, material and relevant evidence may be
      admitted  in a fact-finding hearing; only material and relevant evidence
      may be admitted in a dispositional hearing. Evidence of parental contact
      or of failure to maintain contact with a child subsequent to the date of
      the filing of a petition under this part shall be  inadmissible  in  the
      fact-finding hearing. Such evidence may be admitted in the dispositional
      hearing  but  shall  not, of itself, be sufficient as a matter of law to
      preclude or require an order committing the guardianship and custody  of
      the child.