Are Child Custody laws different with Native Americans?
There are different child custody laws that pertain to all Native children either on or off the reservation. However they do not look like they will apply to you. They law is basically that if a child gets taken away from BOTH of their parents the tribe can intervene and make sure that child gets placed with a Native family. This is due to historical events when Native children were taken from their homes and placed with White families to make them more White (not for any good reasons). The act is the Indian Child Welfare Act. And it is commonly called ICWA. Here is there website,http://www.nicwa.org/Indian_Child_Welfar… I have emailed them before and got a response back so you may want to email them with your request if you feel up to it. Just keep your identity anonymous. Honestly if your husband is abusing you in any way then I doubt they will give him custody over you just because of ancestry. They may give
