California Court of Appeal

Order terminating defendants' parental rights and choosing adoption as the permanent plan is reversed where: 1) the court violated father's constitutional rights to equal protection and full faith and credit principles by not recognizing him as a presumed father entitled to reunification services as a matter of right based on a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, merely because it was made in Michigan and not California; and 2) the agency violated notice requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2007
• Published 05/24/2007

Judges

• McCONNELL, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carl Fabian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Minor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrea R. St. Julian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant Jennifer G., Patti L. Dikes, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Frank G., John J. Sansone, County Counsel, John E. Philips, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Paula J. Roach, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.