In re A.D.
D.D. (father) appeals the juvenile courts order terminating his parental rights to his eight-year-old daughter, A.D. (See Welf. & Inst. Code, 366.26; all further statutory citations are to this code, unless noted otherwise.) Father contends, and Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) concedes, SSA failed to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.) (ICWA) when, despite multiple opportunities, it failed to ask the paternal grandmother about A.D.s potential Native American ancestry after D.D. stated at the detention hearing that he had Cherokee heritage on his grandmothers side.
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