IN RE JJW

Nos. 334095, 335932.

902 N.W.2d 901 (2017)

320 Mich.App. 88

IN RE JJW and ELW, Minors. In re Williams, Minors.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 8, 2017, 9:15 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

In Docket No. 334095: Angela Sherigan for petitioners.

In Docket No. 334095: Hertz Schram PC (by Lisa D. Stern and Matthew J. Turchyn ) for Hands Across the Water, Inc.

In Docket No. 334095: Elizabeth A. Eggert for the Sault St. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

In Docket No. 334095: Karen Gullberg Cook for the minor children.

In Docket No. 335932: Eric J. Smith , Prosecuting Attorney, Joshua D. Abbot , Chief Appellate Attorney, and John Paul Hunt , Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the Department of Health and Human Services.

In Docket No. 335932: Michigan Indian Legal Services (by Cameron Ann Fraser and James A. Keedy ) for respondent.

Before: Sawyer, P.J., and Saad and Riordan, JJ.


In Docket No. 334095, petitioners, foster mothers (collectively, petitioners), appeal as of right an Oakland Circuit Court order denying their petition to adopt JJW and ELW (collectively, the children). The children's biological father, intervenor, is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (the Tribe), which was also an...

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