By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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SNetwork Recent Storiesby ahnationtalk on May 8, 2018416 Views
Lawyer for commissioner who granted adoption says stronger tie to territory needed for it to be valid
May 08, 2018
The Northwest Territories government says an Indigenous custom adoption approved for a B.C. couple who moved to the N.W.T. should never have been granted.
But the parents who applied for and received the custom adoption maintain that territorial or provincial governments can’t overturn it, because custom adoption is a constitutionally protected Indigenous right.
According to the N.W.T.’s Department of Health and Social Services, Indigenous custom adoption is a tradition that’s been passed down between generations, often recognized with a verbal agreement.
The B.C. couple says in 2014, they struck such a verbal agreement with the birth parents to adopt the child. At the time, the child was living with a non-Indigenous family in Ontario, which adopted her two siblings. The B.C. couple were the foster parents of the child for three years after her birth.
Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/custom-adoption-nwt-bc-may-2018-1.4652674
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