In re V.S. CA2/5
A.S. (Mother) appeals an order terminating her parental rights over her daughter, V.S. Years earlier, when Mother was detained from her legal guardians and placed in foster care, her grandmother (V.S.’s maternal great-grandmother) told a dependency investigator that “there may be Native American heritage from [Mother’s] grandfather’s side of the family” and “the tribes may be Cherokee or Chippewa.” The appellate record does not indicate whether or how the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) investigated Mother’s possible Chippewa ancestry in that earlier case, but we know that in this one, the Department did not provide notice of the juvenile court proceedings to any Chippewa tribes. We consider whether such notice should have been given under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and related California law.
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