SB v. Department of Children and Families

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a party in a Florida proceeding to adjudicate child dependency has no right to a collateral proceeding questioning the performance of appointed counsel
• holding that a party in a Florida proceeding to adjudicate child dependency has no right to a collateral proceeding questioning the performance of appointed counsel
• ineffective assistance claim recognized in appeal of termination order, where right to counsel grounded in state constitution, but not dependency order, where right to counsel only statutory
• ineffective assistance claim recognized in appeal of termination order, where right to counsel grounded in state constitution, but not dependency order, where right to counsel only statutory
• “[I]n civil dependency proceedings which do not involve the possibility of criminal charges against the parent or the permanent termination of parental rights, there is no right to pursue a collateral proceeding questioning the competency of court-appointed counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).