In re I.G. CA4/1
APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Michael P. Pulos, Judge. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Michelle D. Pena, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Lonnie J. Eldridge, County Counsel, Lisa Maldonado, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
N.W. (Mother) appeals from the jurisdictional and dispositional orders in the Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 dependency proceedings for her minor daughter, I.G., in which the juvenile court found that the Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. § 1901 et seq.) (ICWA) did not apply to her case. Mother’s sole contention on appeal is that the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (Agency) did not meet its initial ICWA inquiry duty under section 224.2 because it did not make reasonable efforts to contact the maternal grandfather regarding I.G.’s possible Native American heritage.
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