California Court of Appeal

When a vague Indian tribal designation is the only information a County Department of Health and Human Services and the juvenile court has of a minor's Indian ancestry, sending notice to the Bureau of Indian Affairs satisfies the notice provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2002
• Published 01/11/2002

Judges

• DAVIS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Allen, Polgar, Proietti & Fagalde and Michael A. Fagalde, Merced, for Defendant and Appellant., Robert A. Ryan, Jr., County Counsel, Loni Montgomery, Supervising Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.