Parlatore v. Montalvo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the state “has an urgent interest 21 in the welfare of the child”
• concluding that parent's right to counsel should be decided on case-by-case basis because parental termination proceedings do not involve the loss of liberty
• holding that the trial court must make the decision of whether due process calls for the appointment of counsel for indigent parents in termination proceedings on a case-by-case basis
• holding parents' custodial rights are a fundamental interest guaranteed due process protection
• explaining that due process “expresses the requirement of fundamental fairness” (quotations omitted)
• declining to hold that due process requires “the appointment of counsel for indigent parents in [all] termination proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).