State Ex Rel. Lemaster v. Oakley

How courts have described this case

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

• court-appointed counsel for indigent parents in civil child neglect proceedings
• “In child neglect proceedings which may result in the termination of parental rights to the custody of natural children, indigent parents are entitled to the assistance of counsel because of the requirements of the Due Process clauses of the West Virginia and United States Constitutions.”
• court-appointed counsel for indigent parents in civil child neglect proceedings
• court-appointed counsel for indigent parents in civil child neglect proceedings
• mandating a case-by-case determination of the need for counsel
• right to counsel in parental rights termination eases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).