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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 21 — Indian Child Welfare

§ 1914. Petition to court of competent jurisdiction to invalidate action upon showing of certain violations

Statutory text

Any Indian child who is the subject of any action for foster care placement or termination of parental rights under State law, any parent or Indian custodian from whose custody such child was removed, and the Indian child’s tribe may petition any court of competent jurisdiction to invalidate such action upon a showing that such action violated any provision of sections 1911, 1912, and 1913 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978

    Pub. L. 95–608 title I § 104 · 92 Stat. 3069

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1914

    (Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 104, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3072.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 104, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3072.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 104. Any Indian child who is the subject of any action for foster care placement or termination of parental rights under State law, any parent or Indian custodian from whose custody such child was removed, and the Indian child’s tribe may petition any court of com-petent jurisdiction to invalidate such action upon a showing that such action violated any provision of sections 101, 102, and 103 of this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 104, , 92 Stat. 3072.)

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