In re V.S. CA2/4

background because our opinion is unpublished and the parties are familiar with the facts of the case and its procedural history. (People v. Garcia (2002) 97 Cal.App.4th 847, 851 [unpublished opinion merely reviewing correctness of trial court’s decision “does not merit extensive factual or legal statement”].) Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 in response to DCFS’s initial questions and on ICWA-020 forms filed with the juvenile court. In 2017 the juvenile court ordered paternity testing; as a result of the test, father was deemed V.’s presumed and biological father. The court held there was no reason to know that V. was an Indian child, and instructed the parents to advise DCFS of any new information relating to possible ICWA status. Family reunification services were terminated in April 2018. Father died in May 2019; his death certificate lists him as “Mexican American” and “Hispanic.” Meanwhile, section 224.2 became effective in January 2019; it “codifies and expands on ICWA’s duty of inquiry to determine whether a child is an Indian child.” (In re Dezi C. (2024) 16 Cal.5th 1112, 1131 (Dezi C.).) “Section 224.2, subdivision (b)…