Byers-Watts v. Parker

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a nonattorney mother acting as the guardian ad litem for her child may not act as an attorney to represent her child
• reasoning that “all evidence should be examined during navigability determinations and no relevant facts should be excluded”
• non-attorney parent or like fiduciary must be represented by attorney to maintain lawsuit on behalf of child or incompetent person
• non-attorney parent or like fiduciary must be represented by attorney to maintain lawsuit on behalf of child or incompetent person
• rule recognizing a parent’s right to sue on behalf of a child does not entitle the parent to provide legal representation for the child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).