Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 21 — Indian Child Welfare
§ 1919. Agreements between States and Indian tribes
Statutory text
Subject coverage
States and Indian tribes are authorized to enter into agreements with each other respecting care and custody of Indian children and jurisdiction over child custody proceedings, including agreements which may provide for orderly transfer of jurisdiction on a case-by-case basis and agreements which provide for concurrent jurisdiction between States and Indian tribes.
Revocation; notice; actions or proceedings unaffected
Such agreements may be revoked by either party upon one hundred and eighty days’ written notice to the other party. Such revocation shall not affect any action or proceeding over which a court has already assumed jurisdiction, unless the agreement provides otherwise.
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.
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
Pub. L. 95–608 title I § 109 · 92 Stat. 3069
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1919
(Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 109, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3074.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–608, title I, § 109, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3074.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 109. (a) States and Indian tribes are authorized to enter into agreements with each other respecting care and custody of Indian children and jurisdiction over child custody proceedings, including agreements which may provide for orderly transfer of jurisdiction on a case-by-case basis and agreements which provide for concurrent jurisdiction between States and Indian tribes. (b) Such agreements may lie revoked by either party upon one hundred and eighty days’ written notice to the other party. Such revocation shall not affect any action or proceeding over which a court has already assumed jurisdiction, unless the agreement provides otherwise.
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