Komerica Post, LLC and Dong Wook Yang v. Jai Sung Byun

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• finding that the child’s successful integration into a foster family willing to adopt favors termination
• concluding juvenile court acted appropriately in declining to address placement issue until after termination hearing where issue of placement was not raised until well after removal and after termination proceedings had been initiated
• concluding juvenile court acted 7 appropriately in declining to address placement issue until after termination hearing where issue of placement was not raised until well after removal and after termination proceedings had been initiated
• noting ICWA 13 must be applied even where no evidence shows children were raised in Indian culture
• noting the parent’s decisions and lifestyle impeded her ability to learn to care for the child
• paramount concern in termination proceedings is the best interests of the child, and remains so even where ICWA applies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).