Bill Text: MN HF2421 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Preadoptive and adoptive child placement proceedings modified.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-22 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Civil Law [HF2421 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF2421-Introduced.html

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A bill for an act

relating to family law; adoption; modifying certain child placement proceedings;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 260.771, subdivision 3.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 260.771, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
    Subd. 3. Transfer of proceedings. In a proceeding for (1) the termination of
parental rights or, (2) the involuntary foster care placement of an Indian child not within
the jurisdiction of subdivision 1, or (3) the preadoptive placement or adoptive placement
of an Indian child not within the jurisdiction of subdivision 1, the court, in the absence of
good cause to the contrary, shall transfer the proceeding to the jurisdiction of the tribe
absent objection by either parent, upon the petition of either parent or the Indian custodian
or the Indian child's tribe. The transfer shall be subject to declination by the tribal court
of such tribe. For purposes of this subdivision, "preadoptive placement" and "adoptive
placement" have the meanings given in section 260.755, subdivision 3.