Koppelman v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that failure of court in termination-of-parental-rights proceeding to give notice required by ICWA required remand, but not necessarily reversal, of termination order; if child was determined by tribe to be Indian, then termination order would be vacated
• holding father’s statement during state-requested psychological evaluation that his father was “full-blooded Mohican” gave court reason to believe children were of Indian ancestry
• observing that parental rights may be terminated “at the initial disposition hearing if the court finds it to be in the best interests of the child to do so”
• rejecting parent’s argument that termination of parental rights at initial disposition without approved case plan was reversible error
• notwithstanding absence of disposition hearing, court properly considered parents’ participation in programs outlined in reunification plan
• noting in case where parents had received parenting skills class, mental health services and marriage counseling, that “[a]ny assistance SRS provides to troubled parents is ... a factor in determining whether SRS met its burden” in termination cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).