Rule 2. Definitions

(a) “Child” means a person under 18 years of age when

the petition for adjudication is filed who remains subject to the

jurisdiction of the court.

(b) “Custodian” means a natural person 18 years of age

or older to whom a parent has transferred temporary physical

care, custody, and control of the child for the period of time

immediately preceding the conduct alleged in the petition.

(c) “Department” means the Department of Family and

Community Services of the State of Alaska.

(d) “Guardian” means a natural person who is legally

appointed guardian of the person of a child.

(e) “Guardian ad litem” means a person appointed by the

court to represent the best interests of the child in the CINA

proceeding as distinguished from a guardian of the person

defined in paragraph (d).

(f) “Indian” means any person who is a member of an

Indian tribe, or who is an Alaska native and a member of a

regional corporation as defined in 43 U.S.C. § 1606.

(g) “Indian child” means any unmarried person who is

under the age of 18 and who is either (1) a member of an

Indian tribe, or (2) is eligible for membership in an Indian tribe

and is the biological child of a member of an Indian tribe.

(h) “Indian child’s tribe” means (1) the Indian tribe in

which an Indian child is a member or eligible for membership

or (2), in the case of an Indian child who is a member of or

eligible for membership in more than one tribe, the Indian tribe

with which the Indian child has the more significant contacts.

(i) “Indian custodian” means any Indian person who has

legal custody of an Indian child under tribal law or custom or

under state law, or to whom temporary physical care, custody

and control has been transferred by the parent of the child.

ild who is a member of or

eligible for membership in more than one tribe, the Indian tribe

with which the Indian child has the more significant contacts.

(i) “Indian custodian” means any Indian person who has

legal custody of an Indian child under tribal law or custom or

under state law, or to whom temporary physical care, custody

and control has been transferred by the parent of the child.

(j) “Indian tribe” means any Indian tribe, band, nation,

or other organized group or community of Indians recognized

as eligible for services provided to Indians by the Secretary of

the Department of the Interior because of their status as

Indians, including an Alaska Native village as defined in 43

U.S.C. § 1602(c).

(k) “Parent” means a biological or adoptive parent whose

parental rights have not been terminated.

(l) “Party” means the child, the parents, the guardian, the

guardian ad litem, the Department, an Indian custodian who

has intervened, an Indian child’s tribe which has intervened,

and any other person who has been allowed to intervene by the

court.

Cross References

CROSS REFERENCE: AS 25.20.010; AS 47.10.990; 25 U.S.C. §

1903.

(f) CROSS REFERENCE: 25 U.S.C. § 1903(3).

(g) CROSS REFERENCE: 25 U.S.C. § 1903(4).

(h) CROSS REFERENCE: 25 U.S.C. § 1903(5).

(i) CROSS REFERENCE: 25 U.S.C. § 1903(6).

(j) CROSS REFERENCE: 25 U.S.C. § 1903(7).