) Underourlegal system, hearsay evidencehastraditionally not been allowed to be admitted unless it falls into a class of statements previously found by case law orset by statute to be inherentlyreliable,i.e., excited utterance, dying declaration. (Cal. Evid. Code §§ 1240, 1242.) Overthe years, exceptions have been created by the Courts and the Legislature to allow hearsay evidence to be admitted in juvenile dependency proceedings with certain safeguards.