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HAMPTON v. J.A.L.

No. 27869-JA.

658 So.2d 331 (1995)

In re James Ronald HAMPTON and Jan Harris Milz Hampton, Applying for Adoption, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. J.A.L. (Natural Parent of the Child), Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 17, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Northwest Louisiana, Legal Services, Inc. by E. Paul Young, Steven A. Campbell, Mary Ellen Halterman, Shreveport, for appellant.

Love, Rigby, Dehan & McDaniel by Kenneth Rigby, Shreveport, for appellee.

Before SEXTON, NORRIS, LINDSAY, WILLIAMS and STEWART, JJ.

NORRIS, Judge.

J.L., the Indian mother of A.S.L., appeals a trial court judgment allowing her to withdraw her consent to adoption under the provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), but denying her writ of habeas corpus and awarding sole care, custody and control of the child to the Hamptons, a non-Indian couple, subject to reasonable visitation. J.L. has assigned three errors under the ICWA. The Hamptons have answered the appeal, urging the inapplicability...

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