Statutes | Colorado River Tribe, Children's Code Chapter 1 ยง1-102 | 2019
(a) "Abandoned" means the failure of the parent to provide reasonable support or to maintain regular contact with his or her child when such failure is intended by the parent to continue for an indefinite period in the future. Failure to maintain a parental relationship with the child without just cause for a period of six months (6) shall constitute evidence of abandonment.
(b) "Abuse" means the infliction of physical injury, sexual molestation and/or neglect, and shall include failure to maintain reasonable care and treatment to such an extent that health or emotional well-being is endangered
(c) "Adult" means a person eighteen (18) years of age or older.
(d) "Child" means a person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
(e) "Counsel" means a person who has been recognized by the Colorado River Indian Tribal Court as qualified to represent individuals in proceedings before the Court.
(f) "Custodian" means either:
(1) A person other than a parent or legal guardian, to whom physical custody and control of the child has been given by a parent.
(2) A person other than a parent or legal guardian, to whom legal custody of the child has been given by order of the Court.
(g) "Custody or Legal Custody" means the vesting either by court order or by other means of the following rights and responsibilities:
(1) The right to have physical custody of the child.
(2) The right and duty to protect, train, and discipline the child.
(3) The responsibility to provide the child with food, shelter, education, and medical care, provided that such rights and responsibilities shall be exercised subject to the existing powers, rights, duties and responsibilities of a guardian or a parent.
(h) "Detention" means withholding the child from the physical custody and control of his parents, guardians or custodians, either in secure custody or in shelter care.
(i) "Extended Family Member" means a person, eighteen (18) years of age or older, who is the childs grandparent, aunt or uncle, brother or sister, cousin, or step-parent.
(j) "Extrajudicial Statement" means a statement, including a confession, admission, or other statement against interest made to a prosecutor, law enforcement officer, an official of the Tribes or a person acting for or on behalf of any of the foregoing officials.
(k) "Foster Home" means a home maintained by one or more persons suitable for placement of children, not immediately related by blood or the legal wards of such person, either for a temporary or an indefinite period of time.
(l) "Guardian" means a person who has been appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to care for the person and property of a child. The rights and powers of a guardian include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
(1) The authority to consent to marriage, to enlistment in the armed forces of the United States and to major medical, psychiatric and surgical treatment, to represent the minor in legal action, and make other decisions of substantial legal significance concerning the child.
(2) The right of reasonable visitation.
(3) The rights and responsibilities of legal custody.
(4) The authority to consent to an adoption if there are no living parents or if all parental rights have been terminated by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(m) "Guardian Ad Litem" means a person appointed by the Court to protect the interest of a child in a particular case before the Court.
(n) &ldquoJudge&rdquo means a judge of the Juvenile Court.
(o) "Judicial Clerk" means the Judicial Clerk of the Tribal Court.
(p) "Juvenile Court" means the Colorado River Indian Tribal Court when exercising its jurisdiction over children.
(q) "Minor" means a person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
(r) "Parent" means the natural or adoptive parent of a child.
(s) "Parent-Child Relationship" includes all rights, privileges, duties and obligations existing between parent and child.
(t) &ldquoPutative Father&rdquo means a man whose legal relationship to a child has not been established, but who is alleged to be or claims that he may be the biological father of a child who is born to a woman to whom he is not married at the time of the childs birth.
(u) "Shelter Care" means care and placement of a child in a foster home or institution maintained by individuals or organizations to receive, care for and control children either on a temporary basis or for an indefinite period of time.
(v) "Ward of the Court" means a status declared by the Court wherein the Court undertakes the protection of a child and possesses all powers of a guardian, excluding the duty of support, but including the right to change custody of a child and make necessary order for maintenance.
(w) &ldquoWorking Day" means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday declared by the Chairman of the Tribes.
[As amended on August 11, 2016, by Ordinance 03-16.]