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IN RE MARRIAGE OF JACOBSEN

No. B161615.

18 Cal.Rptr.3d 162 (2004)

121 Cal.App.4th 1187

In re MARRIAGE OF Maria and Randy JACOBSEN. Maria Jacobsen, Appellant, v. Randy Jacobsen, Respondent.

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

August 26, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Price, Postel & Parma, Penny Clemmons and Timothy E. Metzinger, Santa Barbara, for Appellant.

Misho, Kirker & Brown, Vanessa Kirker, Santa Barbara, and Jacqueline Misho for Respondent.

Fred J. Hiestand, Sacramento, and Howard L. Dickstein for the Pala Band of Mission Indians, the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians and the United Auburn Indian Community as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Certified for Partial Publication.*

GILBERT, P.J.

Federal law directs state courts to give full force and effect to American Indian tribal law and custom in civil matters. Chumash tribal custom and tradition provides that funds distributed by the tribe to its members should not be used to pay spousal support to nonmembers. Here we hold that the family law court is not required to...

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