american families. george howell digging into this case for us. he joins us. explain how this girl's biological dad was able to do this after two years? >> dustin brown is the biological father and he used this law child the indian child welfare act. it's basically designed to keep indian families together, to keep them from being broken up. he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daughter back from matt and melanie. as you can imagine, they didn't rell realize that this would happen a day sooner than they had predicted for it to happen. >> she's adorable, too. >> they raised her since her birth. they say this was an open adoption that. they know her biological mother. but given the court's decision, they had to basically transfer their daughter over to dustin brown. this happened, again, on new year's eve. they thought it would happen new year's day. we actually have an interview with the family that was taken just after that transfer happened from our affiliate wciv.
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