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 98 STAT. 2412

Children and youth.

PUBLIC LAW 98-513—OCT. 19, 1984

title to such escheated interest shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the tribe. (b) As used in this section, the words "children" and "issue" include children adopted under the laws of a State or foreign country, or in accordance with the laws of an Indian tribe, children of unwed parents where the Secretary of the Interior determines that paternity has been acknowledged or established under the laws of a State or foreign country or in accordance with the laws of an Indian tribe, and children of parents whose parental rights have been terminated pursuant to lawful authority. (c) As used in this section, the word "parent" shall not include the parent of any child with respect to whom such parent's parental rights have been voluntarily terminated pursuant to lawful authority. SEC. 4. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 and subject to the provisions of section 5 of this Act, the nonmember of the tribe surviving spouse, nonmember surviving children and the nonmember surviving issue of any children of any person who dies possessed of any interest in trust or restricted land within the reservation, shall be entitled to take only a life estate in any interest in such trust or restricted land devised by a will approved by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to section 2 of the Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 856), as amended (25 U.S.C. 373). (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 2 and 3 and subject to the provisions of section 5 of this Act, wherever any person dies possessed of any interest in trust or restricted land within the reservation and the trust or restricted land has not been devised by a will approved by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to section 2 of the Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 856), as amended (25 U.S.C. 373), the nonmember of the tribe surviving spouse, nonmember children, and the nonmember issue of any children of the decedent shall be entitled to take only a life estate in any interest provided in section 3 of this Act. (c) At the time that the Secretary of the Interior approves any life estate for a surviving spouse, children, or the issue of any children of a decedent, the trust or restricted land subject to such life estate thereafter shall be held in trust for the appropriate heir under section 3 of this Act or the provisions of any will approved by the Secretary pursuant to section 2 of the Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 856), as amended (25 U.S.C. 373). (d) The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section notwithstanding, unless a devise of trust or restricted land otherwise provides, any life estate provided for in this Act shall be subject to applicable regulations pertaining to the use of trust or restricted land and to the following conditions, restrictions and limitations: (1) whenever the life tenant is a sole heir, such life tenant shall be entitled to determine the use and to receive any income from the lease or other use of the life tenant's interest in the land; (2) whenever an enrolled member of the tribe dies survived by a nonmember spouse and nonmember children, such spouse shall be entitled to one-half of the income from the lease or other use of the life tenant's interest in the land and such children shall be entitled to the other one-half, and the same division shall apply to any land use determination; (3) whenever an enrolled member of the tribe dies survived by a nonmember spouse, nonmember children, and nonmember

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