Opinion ID: 1172030
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Heading: the reviewability of the mother's jurisdictional challenge jurisdictional challenge to the trial court's assumption of cognizance over the child's preadjudicative custody

Text: The mother asserts the trial court's failure to follow certain statutory process during the preadjudicative stages is violative of her due process rights. She directs us to two instances in which the trial court disregarded the minimum standard of mandated procedure: [1] a show cause hearing required by § 1104.1(C) of the Juvenile Code [3] was not held within 48 hours either of the 1984 or the 1986 order, both of which authorized N.L.'s emergency removal and [2] contrary to § 40.5(A) of the state ICWA, no statutorily mandated affidavit was attached to either of these orders. [4] The record reveals the mother's brief to the trial court  in support of her oral motion to dismiss the 1984 proceedings  clearly challenged the trial court's failure to afford her a § 1104.1(C) hearing following the child's emergency removal. This challenge had a jurisdictional dimension. It questioned the court's power to decide the preadjudicative placement issue. The infirmity asserted in the mother's motion was not subsequently cured by the 1986 preadjudicative process. The latter was equally fatal. [5]