Ted W. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services

OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal arises from the superior court's decision to allow a mother to revoke the Indian custodian status for her child's father, whose own parental rights to the child had already been terminated. The father's status as the child's Indian custodian under the Indian Child Welfare Act was based solely on the mother's temporary transfer of physical care and custody of the child to the father after termination of his parental rights. After the Office of Children's Services (OCS) removed the child from the father and became the child's temporary legal…