"The issue is not what degree of Choctaw ancestry a child has," Singel said. However, a court found that the Pages have not proven Lexi would suffer emotional harm by the transfer. The Pages argued that Lexi has lived with them since the age of 2 and considers them her family. The Pages have fought efforts under the federal Indian Child Welfare Act to place Lexi with relatives of her father, who is part Choctaw. McGill also requested that custody of the child named Lexi be returned to Rusty and Summer Page until the appeal is decided. The family's lawyer, Lori Alvino McGill, filed the request for the California Supreme Court to hear the appeal. LOS ANGELES - A California family appealed Tuesday to the state's highest court in their fight to keep a 6-year-old foster child who was removed from their home after a lower court said her 1/64th Native American bloodline requires that she live with relatives. A Santa Clarita family appealed to California's highest court to keep a 6-year-old foster child who was removed from their home and sent to live with relatives in Utah.
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