IN RE TREVER I.

Docket: And-08-584

973 A.2d 752 (2009)

2009 ME 59

In re TREVER I.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: June 11, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shari R. Sobel, Esq., Bergen & Parkinson, LLC, Kennebunk, for the father.

Janet T. Mills, Atty. Gen., Nora Sosnoff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

Kristina Donovan, Esq., Auburn, Guardian ad litem.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, and MEAD, JJ.


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶1] The father of Trever I. appeals from a judgment of the District Court (Lewiston, Beliveau, J.) terminating his parental rights. The father argues that the court (1) erred when it terminated his parental rights following the Department of Health and Human Services's (Department) alleged failure to sufficiently investigate the father's claim of Indian heritage and the applicability of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), 25 U.S...

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