Manuel M. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security

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• concluding that, after a parent’s waiver of rights, “factual allegations are deemed admitted but legal conclusions are not.”
• holding that when a parent fails to appear at a severance hearing, he “admits only the factual contentions contained in the motion”
• concluding that a parent does not waive the parent's due process right to the assistance of counsel by failing to appear at a termination hearing because Rule 66(D)(2
• holding that a parent’s failure to appear at a termination adjudication may constitute a waiver of rights if the parent had been informed he or she could lose those rights by failing to appear
• recognizing that although a parent has procedural due process rights in a termination adjudication hearing, the parent can waive those rights through non-appearance after being “specifically informed he or she could lose by failing to appear”
• acknowledging that a parent's nonappearance can constitute a constructive waiver of rights that the parent had been specifically informed could be lost by failing to appear

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).