Palin has admitted that the call could be interpreted as pressure to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin's sister.

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She fought a long custody battle against her ex-husband for custody of their child.

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"Courts in seven states have held that ICWA does not bar courts from terminating the parental rights of a non-custodial father under state law when the father abandoned his child to the sole custody of a non-Indian mother, " said Lisa Blatt, attorney for the couple.

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Two Belgian ministers and a police chief resigned after Marc Dutroux, an alleged child-killer, briefly escaped from custody.

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The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.

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The child was returned and the author retained sole custody while his ex-wife was fined for "defamation" of his name.

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Child protective workers took the boy and his 9-year-old brother into custody, he said.

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But it was Duff, who sought millions of dollars in annual child support for their then three-year-old daughter and ended up getting much less, who lost the custody battle.

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