California Court of Appeal

Juvenile court order terminating parental rights is reversed where the Indian Child Welfare Act applies when the minors' presumed father in a juvenile dependency proceeding alleges that his adoptive father has one-quarter ancestry in a federally recognized Indian tribe, and thus notice of the proceedings must be given to the tribe in question.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2009
• Published 08/13/2009

Judges

• MARGULIES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Caroline J. Todd, Berkeley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Defendant and Appellant., Patrick K. Faulkner, County Counsel, Jessica F. Mills, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.