Tribal Law - Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; National Indian Law Library, Native American Rights Fund

Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin - Tribal Law

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Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Tribal Code.

1.27.010 Applicability

(a) This chapter applies to dissolutions of marriage and legal separations of marriage performed on the Reservation, in which one or both parties to the marriage is a member of the Bad River Tribe, or to marriage performed in another jurisdiction in which both parties are members of the Bad River Tribe, or a marriage performed in another jurisdiction in which one party is a member of the Bad River Tribe and the party filing the action has been a resident within the exterior boundary of the Bad River Reservation for a period of at least 60 days prior to the commencement of the dissolution action.

(b) The procedures set forth herein shall be exclusive as to any dissolution of marriage and/or legal separation in which one or both parties is a member of the Bad River Tribe.

(c) The procedures set forth herein shall be concurrent with the procedures established by the laws of the Bad River Tribal Court and the State of Wisconsin where applicable, in which one party is a non-member of the Bad River Tribe. The signed Petition by a non-member for a dissolution of marriage under this chapter constitutes the non-member's consent to Bad River Tribe's jurisdiction to grant a divorce.