Is the Indian Child Welfare Act Losing Steam?: Non-Custodial Parental Rights After Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in Adoptive Couple v.Baby Girl, a decision that will have long-term effects on the use of the Indian Child Welfare Act by non-custodial Native parents.Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 in response to the high volume of Native children that had been removed from their