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The Yurok Tribal Council, in accordance with the Constitution of the Yurok Tribe and in the exercise of the Yurok Tribe’s inherent sovereign power to safeguard and provide for the health, safety and welfare of the members of the Yurok Tribe, hereby enacts the Family Code codified in this title in order to safeguard family relationships, provide for legal recognition of marriages, promote the peaceful and fair settlement of disputes between parties to a marriage, minimize the potential harm to spouses and their children caused by the dissolution of marriages, strengthen parental responsibility for family and child support, and provide procedures for establishing the legal relationship existing between a child and his or her parents in accordance with Yurok culture, tradition, and values. [Ord. 50 § 1.1, adopted, 3/23/2017.]