Statutes | Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Law Title 5, Chapter 5 ยง 1 | 2020
This Chapter provides for the voluntary or involuntary termination of the parent-Child relationship by court order by severing of the legal relationship, with all its rights and responsibilities, between the Child and his parents so that the Child is free for permanent placement or adoption, except that it shall not affect the right of inheritance of the Child or the Childs membership rights in the Tribe. This Chapter shall be construed in a manner consistent with the philosophy that the family unit is of most value to the community and to individual family members when that unit remains united and together, and that termination of the parent-Child relationship bears such permanent effects that it should be used only as a last resort when, in the opinion of the court, all efforts have failed to preserve a viable family unit and termination is in the best interests of the Child concerned.