Department of Human Services v. A. B. B.

Children bring this consolidated appeal from review judgments under ORS 419B.449 in a juvenile dependency proceeding that is subject to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They assign error to the juvenile court’s determination in those judgments that the Department of Human Services (DHS) has made “active efforts” to reunify the family, contending that the evidence is legally insufficient to support that determination. See ORS 419B.340(1) (requiring juvenile court to assess whether DHS has made “active efforts,” to a permit a child to stay in, or return to, child’s home in certain orders in…