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FORT PECK TRIBAL COURT OF APPEALS
FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION
ASSINIBOINE AND SIOUX TRIBES
POPLAR, MONTANA
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In the Matter of the Custody of

BUCKLEY COLE ACKERMAN, born 8/27/85

JADE HEATHER ACKERMAN, born 7/26/83

Minor Indian Children

Appeal No. 308

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ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR REVIEW
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    A PETITION FOR REVIEW having been filed on September 14, 1998 by Sharon Brown, biological mother of the subject Indian Minor Children, challenging an Order of the Tribal Court issued on September 2, 1998, the Honorable Georgia Dupuis, presiding, awarding custody of the children to their maternal grandmother, Beverly Boyd and good cause appearing;

IT IS NOWTHEREFOR THE ORDER OF THIS COURT THAT:

  1. The petition is denied in view of the fact that the subject custodial order contains a provision requiring a "one year review' which is now ripe for hearing.
  2. This Court's denial contemplates that the one year review hearing will be calendared and completed at the earliest possible date.
  3. This denial does not prevent the parties from appealing future custodial orders.

Dated this 3Oth day of September, 1999.

BY THE COURT OF APPEALS:


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Gary P. Sullivan
Chief Justice
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