Pasqua v. Council

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, to ensure integrity of fact-finding hearing, right to counsel attaches to indigent parents facing incarceration for failure to pay child support
• holding that parents arrested on warrants for nonsupport must be brought before the court and, if indigent, afforded counsel prior to coercive incarceration
• ruling against judiciary and holding that indigent parents facing incarceration at child support enforcement hearings are constitutionally entitled to appointed counsel
• holding due process requires the appointment of counsel for indigent parents at risk of incarceration resulting from child support enforcement hearings
• ruling against judiciary and holding that indigent parents facing incarceration at child support enforcement hearings are constitutionally entitled to appointed counsel
• finding that brief incarceration to coerce payment of a willful refusal to pay child support is a consequence of magnitude that necessitates the appointment of counsel for indigents facing that potential

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).