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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 21 — Indian Child Welfare

§ 1917. Tribal affiliation information and other information for protection of rights from tribal relationship; application of subject of adoptive placement; disclosure by court

Statutory text

Upon application by an Indian individual who has reached the age of eighteen and who was the subject of an adoptive placement, the court which entered the final decree shall inform such individual of the tribal affiliation, if any, of the individual’s biological parents and provide such other information as may be necessary to protect any rights flowing from the individual’s tribal relationship.

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 § 107 · 92 Stat. 3069

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1917

    (Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 107, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3073.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 107, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3073.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 107. Upon application by an Indian individual who has reached 25 USC 1917. the age of eighteen and who was the subject of an adoptive placement, the court which entered the final decree shall inform such individual of the tribal affiliation, if any, of the individual’s biological parents and provide such other information as may be necessary to protect any rights flowing from the individual’s tribal relationship.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 107, , 92 Stat. 3073.)

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