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IN RE SANTOS Y.

No. B144822.

112 Cal.Rptr.2d 692 (2001)

92 Cal.App.4th 1274

In re SANTOS Y., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Arturo G. et al., Defendants and Appellants; Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians, Interveners and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

Review Denied February 13, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernesto P. Rey and John L. Dodd, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants.

No appearance for Respondent.

Vito A. Constanzo, Los Angeles, Holland and Knight, for Interveners and Respondents on behalf of the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians.

Christie Parker & Hale, Brian Brookey; Native American Rights Fund and Mark C. Tilden as Amici Curiae on behalf of Interveners.

Janette Freeman Cochran, Pasadena, for Minor under appointment of the Court of Appeal.

BOREN, P.J.

INTRODUCTION

The trial court, feeling compelled by the Indian Child Welfare Act, ordered the Minor in this dependency case removed from the home of the only parents the Minor knows, and transferred to a home on a Chippewa Indian reservation in Minnesota. We apply the "existing Indian family doctrine" to reverse the trial court's placement order.

SUMMARY

In a hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26,

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