MATTER OF GUARDIANSHIP OF Q.G.M.

No. 74370.

808 P.2d 684 (1991)

In the Matter of the GUARDIANSHIP OF Q.G.M., a minor.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Susan Work and Colline W. Meek, Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, Inc., Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Richard E. Butner, Wewoka, for appellees.


KAUGER, Justice.

After refusing to allow the Seminole Tribe to intervene, the trial court granted letters of guardianship to the paternal grandparents of a Seminole Indian child. The dispositive issues are whether: 1) an Indian tribe which seeks to intervene in the proceedings must intervene at the first stage of the proceedings, or whether it may wait to intervene until the trial court reaches the dispositional stage; and...

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