In re Nicholas F. CA5
A Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 petition was filed on behalf of appellant Nicholas F. and he was placed in a foster home. Subsequently, Nicholas was the subject of a section 602 petition filed in December 2013; the section 602 petition was sustained. In October 2014, the dependency proceeding was terminated. After subsequent sustained section 602 petitions and multiple probation violations, the juvenile court committed Nicholas to the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in November 2016.
After the dependency was terminated, information indicated Nicholas may have Native American ancestry. Nicholas contends the juvenile court erred prejudicially because it failed to provide notice pursuant to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) 25 U.S.C. section 1901 et seq. to tribes and/or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), thus depriving him of due process. We disagree and affirm.
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