DMR.1.3.020 Full Faith and Credit

(a) The Children's Court, Child Welfare Director, Assistant Child Welfare Director and other officials of the tribal government shall grant the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of other entities, applicable to child welfare proceedings, full faith and credit to the same extent such entities give full faith and credit to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the Tribe.

(b) Without limitation to Section DMR.1.3.020(a) above, the Children's Court may, upon petition, accept a case originally brought in another Court. Cases not accepted by the Children's Court within sixty (60) days of the entry of the order transferring the case shall be deemed a declination of the case. The Children's Court may, on its own motion or the motion of any party, decline or waive jurisdiction over a child at any time

(c) Upon entry of the order transferring the case, dispositional orders in effect when the case was transferred to the Children's Court shall have the same effect as if they had been issued by the Children's Court, regardless of whether the Children's Court would otherwise have had the power to make the order. Regardless of the law of other jurisdictions, the Children's Court may modify, extend, suspend or terminate any order issued in a transferred judicial proceeding pursuant to the provisions of this Code.

(d) Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tribe to make determinations of its own membership, and to make, through its duly designated procedures, all findings of fact necessary to such determinations.