Court Opinion

ID: 9786731
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:01:54.189429+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:48.021668
License: Public Domain

BENCH, Judge
(concurring in the result):
144 This case is not nearly as complex as it may appear. In appeal number 990726, Judge Timothy Hanson denied a Petition for Writ of Assistance wherein appellant (Mother) sought to enforce the Tribal Court's temporary custody order. Judge Hanson denied this Petition because the Tribal Court had granted temporary custody to Mother in an ex parte order, without any notice to appel-lees (Grandparents).
T45 In appeal number 20000274, Judge Leslie Lewis properly granted full faith and credit to the Tribal Court's order of permanent custody. Grandparents received notice of that proceeding in Tribal Court and chose *321not to appear. Judge Lewis erred, therefore, when she granted Grandparents' Rule 60(b) motion on the basis that Judge Hanson's ruling on temporary custody was controlling.
1 46 I therefore concur in the result of the main opinion, holding that Judge Lewis's original judgment of August 25, 1999 is valid and enforceable.