JCNF v. Stone County Dept. of Human Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that the chancellor did not err in failing to appoint counsel for a mother who had declined to request legal assistance after receiving adequate notice of a termination hearing and actively participated in the proceedings
• finding an indigent mother, facing a termination of parental rights, neither was entitled to appointed counsel nor entitled to a continuance to obtain counsel
• rejecting argument that trial court should have granted continuance to obtain attorney when she had no right to counsel from the state, she did not demonstrate that “she would have been able to secure counsel had she been granted a continuance”
• parent not denied due process when presence of counsel would not have precluded fact finder from finding parental rights should have been terminated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).