(a) "Child" means a person under 18 years of age when the petition for adjudication is filed who remains subject to the jurisdiction of the court. (b) "Custodian" means a natural person 18 years of age or older to whom a parent has transferred temporary physical care, custody, and control of the child for the period of time immediately preceding the conduct alleged in the petition. (c) "Department" means the Department of Family and Community Services of the State of Alaska. (d) "Guardian" means a natural person who is legally appointed guardian of the person of a child. (e) "Guardian ad litem" means a person appointed by the court to represent the best interests of the child in the CINA proceeding as distinguished from a guardian of the person defined in paragraph (d). (f) "Indian" means any person who is a member of an Indian tribe, or who is an Alaska native and a member of a regional corporation as defined in 43 U.S.C. § 1606. (g) "Indian child" means any unmarried person who is under the age of 18 and who is either (1) a member of an Indian tribe, or (2) is eligible for membership in an Indian tribe and is the biological child of a member of an Indian tribe. (h) "Indian child's tribe" means (1) the Indian tribe in which an Indian child is a member or eligible for membershipor (2), in the case of an Indian child who is a member of or eligible for membership in more than one tribe, the Indian tribe with which the Indian child has the more significant contacts. (i) "Indian custodian" means any Indian person who has legal custody of an Indian child under tribal law or custom or under state law, or to whom temporary physical care, custody and control has been transferred by the parent of the child. (j) "Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians recognized as eligible for services provided to Indians by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior because of their status as Indians, including an Alaska Native village as defined in 43 U.S.C. § 1602(c). (k) "Parent" means a biological or adoptive parent whose parental rights have not been terminated. (l) "Party" means the child, the parents, the guardian, the guardian ad litem, the Department, an Indian custodian who has intervened, an Indian child's tribe which has intervened, and any other person who has been allowed to intervene by the court. SCO 845 effective 8/15/1987; amended by SCO 1355 effective 7/15/1999; amended by SCO 1987 effective nunc pro tunc 7/1/2022.