9.04.230 Priority of Proceedings; Judicial Review

(a) Priority on Court calendar. Judicial proceedings for emergency protection of children, termination of parental rights, and adoption of children, and objections thereto, shall be considered to have the highest priority and shall be advanced on the dockets of trial and reviewing courts so as to provide for their earliest practicable disposition. An adjournment or continuance of a proceeding under this act shall not be granted without a showing of good cause.

(b) Judicial Review. Any party aggrieved by an order, judgment, or decree of the Court in suit for emergency protection of children termination of parental rights, or adoption may, within thirty days after notice of its entry, file notice of an appeal to the appeal court. Procedures for an appeal are governed by the rules applicable to appeals from the Tribal Court in civil cases. A petition for the child's adoption may not be heard pending the appeal of a decree terminating a parent-child relationship.

(c) Priority of appeals. Appeals from orders under this act shall be given priority in the reviewing Court and shall take precedence over all other matters, except for already docketed appeals from orders in other termination or adoption proceedings and other matters which are given priority by specific statutory provision. No postponements, continuances, recesses, or adjournments for longer than three days shall be granted except with the consent of all the parties, and none shall be granted after the appeal has been docketed for sixty days.