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Indian Child Welfare Act Icwa Outline

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Federal Indian Law Outlines

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Federal Indian Law outline explains statutory, common, and treatise law that impacts the limits to tribal self governance. Outline topics include: Constitutional and Canonical limits of interpretation, determining tribal and individual status, jurisdictional issues, federal takings, inherent sovereignty, land claims, and ICWA. Outline includes charts on jurisdiction to make navigating through the many tricky issues of criminal and civil jurisdiction easy. Also includes an attack outline and case ...

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  1. The Problem:

    1. Huge amounts (25-35%) of Indian children were being taken from their parents and placed in foster homes or adopted – often by white families

      1. neglect was found in cases as simple as NAs not having modern conveniences or where misunderstandings of NA culture existed

  2. The solution

    1. The Indian Child Welfare Act

    2. The Court sought to address the problem in four ways:

      1. where possible giving tribal courts jurisdiction of child custody cases, where not possible, involving tribes in the proceedings

      2. providing parents with added procedural protections and raising substantive standards before involuntary removal

      3. creating placement preferences for children

        1. encourage placement with child’s extended family, tribe or other Indian families and only if none of these then others

          1. but if a tribe passes a different preference order the court has to follow this

      4. provide assistance to tribes to manage their own child welfare services and facilitating cooperation between tribes and states

  3. The basics

    1. Tribal court has jurisdiction over any custody proceedings

      1. involving an Indian Child who resides or is domiciled on the reservation

        1. unless another federal law says it doesn’t

      2. and over any Indian child that is a ward of a tribal court regardless of residence

    2. Any removal or termination proceedings for an Indian child that does not live on the reservation should be transferred to the jurisdiction of the tribe unless there is good cause not to

      1. good cause is defined narrowly?

    3. In any state court proceedings over foster care placement etc the child’s tribe shall have the right to intervene at any point in the proceedings

    4. All jurisdictions have to give full faith and credit as they would to any other jurisdiction to Indian tribe public acts, records etc applicable to Indian child custody proceedings

    5. Where a court knows or should know that an Indian child is involved, they must give notice to the parent/guardian and the tribe and the parent or custodian shall have right to counsel

    6. Before parental termination etc the party seeking the termination etc must satisfy court that remedial...

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