Dunn v. State ex rel. Seeley

How courts have described this case

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• holding existing Indian family doctrine precludes application of ICWA when Indian child’s parents have not maintained significant social, cultural, political relationship with tribe
• finding that incarceration for as few as 7 additional months from the date of the hearing, along with other factors, was sufficient to establish that the parent's condition would not change in the foreseeable future
• finding Father's condition was unlikely to change in foreseeable future when he had already been incarcerated for a substantial portion of the children's lives, had been incarcerated throughout the CINC proceedings, and was facing an additional 7 months of imprisonment
• this court found that Judge Sloan had failed to comply with ICWA, but ultimately upheld the challenged ruling as right for the wrong reason
• father had seven months of imprisonment remaining at the time of the termination hearing
• sufficient when Father faced seven more months in prison, had been incarcerated throughout the proceedings and the young children's lives, and he did not try to maintain a relationship with them from prison

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).