title: The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children
author:  B. J. Jones 
description: B.J. Jones is the Litigation Director for Dakota Plains Legal Services, a nonprofit corporation set up under the aegis of the indigent residents of eight Sioux Indian reservations in South and North Dakota and adjoining counties. He is a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. He is admitted in the state courts of Virginia, South Dakota, and North Dakota and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. His practice focuses on Indian law, domestic relations, and entitlements litigation. In his practice, he has represented tribes, Indian children and Indian parents in hundreds of cases involving the application of the Indian Child Welfare Act. He has also served as a special tribal judge for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, and the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation. He is a member of the Indian Law Committee of the South Dakota Bar Association, a Commissioner for the Sicangu Oyate B! ar Commission, and the Chairman of the Rosebud CASA organization.
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  Law of Adoption, Minority, 
  Guardianship and Custody  
  5th Edition 
  2017
  Social Responsibility 
  and 
  Student Welfare Committee 
  
   
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  Law of Adoption, Minority, Guardianship and Custody, 5th ed  >  PART I THE HINDU ADOPTIONS 
  AND MAINTENANCE ACT, 1956  >  CHAPTER I 
  Law of Adoption, Minority, Guardianship and Custody
  PART I THE HINDU ADOPTIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACT, 1956
  (78 of 1956)
  [21st December, 1956]
  An Act to amend and codify the law relating to Adoptions and Maintenance among Hindus.
  CHAPTER I
  1. Short title and extent.—
  (1) This Act may be called the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956.
  (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
  Comments
  1. Scope
  This section relates