Legal Opinion
People ex rel. D.B.
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided November 2, 2017No. Court of Appeals No. 16CA1916PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by JUDGE BOORAS
¶ 1 In this proceeding governed by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), A.C. (mother) appeals the trial court's judgment terminating her parent-child legal relationship with D.B. (the child). We decide *48whether an expert must expressly opine as to whether the child is likely to suffer serious emotional or physical damage in the parent's care to satisfy a required ICWA statutory finding. Because we conclude that expert testimony does not need to recite the specific statutory language, we affirm the judgment.
I. The Dependency and Neglect Case
¶ 2 In July 2015, the…
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