Statutes | Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Law Title 5, Chapter 5 ยง 7 | 2020

a. Except in cases based on consent, the court shall make written findings in determining whether to terminate the parent-Child relationship based on

 

(1) the timeliness, nature, and extent of services offered or provided to the Child or parent by any tribal or state agency to facilitate the reunion of the Child with the parent

 

(2) the terms of any applicable court order and the extent to which the parties have fulfilled their obligations thereunder

 

(3) the feelings and emotional ties of the Child with respect to his parents, any guardian, or any person who has provided physical care or custody to the Child during the preceding year and with whom the Child has developed significant emotional ties

 

(4) the age of the Child

 

(5) the efforts the parent has made to make it in the best interests of the Child to be reunited with the parent and

 

(6) the extent to which the parent may have been prevented from maintaining a meaningful relationship with the Child. 

 

b. Whenever the court finds that the parent-Child relationship should be terminated, all rights, powers, privileges, immunities, duties, and obligations including any rights to custody, control, or visitation, existing between the Child and parent shall be severed and terminated.

 

c. The rights of one parent may be terminated without affecting the rights of the other parent. The remaining parent shall be the sole parent and, unless otherwise provided by law, the guardian of the person of the Child. The parent whose rights have been terminated shall have no standing to appear at any future legal proceedings concerning the Child.

 

d. Any support obligation existing prior to the effective date of the order terminating parental rights shall not be severed or terminated.

 

e. A termination order shall not prevent a Child from inheriting property or interest in the same manner as any other natural Child from the natural parent. A natural parent may not, however, inherit from a natural Child after termination.