Legal Opinion

G.F. v. State

Court of Appeals of Utah

Decided August 24, 2017No. 20160247-CAPublished

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

MORTENSEN, Judge:

¶ 1 Appellant G.F. (Mother) challenges the juvenile court’s order terminating her parental rights to P.F. (Child). Mother argues that Child should have been placed with family or a member of her tribe- as prescribed in the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), that the juvenile court should have relied on her expert’s testimony to determine whether the State made active efforts under ICWA, arid that the juvenile court erroneously denied her motion to invalidate a July 2014 custody order. We affirm. t

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 Child was born in 2008, when Mother was thirteen years old.…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Santa Clara Pueblo v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Montana v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  3. State Ex Rel. E.R.Court of Appeals of Utah · 2001
  4. Adoptive Couple v. Baby GirlSupreme Court of the United States · 2013
  5. In Re the Adoption of F.H.Alaska Supreme Court · 1993

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