Key Bellevilles v. Ballina

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that parent’s absence from termination hearing was not prejudicial where parent was represented by counsel and personal presence would have had little effect on the proceeding
• holding that the Strickland standard applied to non-criminal cases such as parental termination cases
• adopting, without analysis, the outcome-determinative test for prejudice in ineffective assistance of counsel claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).