Paula E. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal arises from a Child In Need of Aid (CINA) case involving four Indian children who were removed from their parents' care due to substance abuse and domestic violence. The children were placed with their maternal grandmother, who claims that the Office of Children's Services (OCS) permanently removed the children and placed them with a non-Native foster family while she was away in Montana caring for her elderly mother. OCS responds that the grandmother requested that the children be removed from her care. There were also substantiated reports of harm relating…