Legal Opinion
Simmers v. State
Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided December 16, 2015No. 113,934PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DEBORAH B. BARNES, Judge.
11 Appellant Abraham Simmers (Father), a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (MCN), appeals from an Order of the trial court overruling his motion for new trial in which he asked the trial court to vacate its order finding active efforts had been made to provide remedial services and rehabilitative programs designed to prevent the breakup of an Indian family and that those efforts proved to be unsuccessful as mandated by the Federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901-1963 (2014). We affirm.
BACKGROUND 1
T2 In September 2012, Appellee State of Oklahoma…
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