California Court of Appeal

Judgment declaring plaintiff's minor daughter a dependent of the juvenile court under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300(a) and (b) and removing the minor from parental custody is affirmed where: 1) the Indian Child Welfare Act's (ICWA) notice requirements for an Indian custodian were not violated; 2) to the limited extent the paternal grandmother's rights as the minor's Indian custodian were implicated, any error was harmless; and 3) there was substantial evidence to support the court's finding that good cause existed to deviate from ICWA's statutory placement preferences.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2009
• Published 09/09/2009

Judges

• IRION, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Christy C. Peterson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., John J. Sansone, County Counsel, John E. Philips, Chief Deputy County Counsel, Dana C. Shoffner and Lisa M. Maldonado, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.