MATTER OF DEPENDENCY AND NEGLECT OF A.L.

No. 16444.

442 N.W.2d 233 (1989)

In the Matter of the DEPENDENCY AND NEGLECT OF A.L., M.L., and M.L., and Concerning G.L. and V.L., Parents.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided June 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Bratt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roger A. Tellinghuisen, Atty. Gen., on the brief, Pierre, for appellee State.

Timothy L. Thomas of Morrill, Brown & Thomas, Rapid City, for V.L., Father.

Jane Doyle of Doyle & Doyle, Rapid City, for G.L., Mother.

Jean M. Cline of Finch, Viken, Viken & Pechota, Rapid City, for A.L., M.L., and M.L., Children.


MORGAN, Justice.

V.L. (Father) and G.L. (Mother), collectively parents, appeal jointly from an order denying Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court's (Tribe's) petition to transfer jurisdiction in the matter of the dependency and neglect of their three children. We affirm.

The order appealed from arises out of a dependency and neglect action commenced in state court by the South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS or State) on March 16, 1987, and involves...

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