State ex rel. Radcliff v. Radcliff

How courts have described this case

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• the plurality, however, called for a per se rule, entitling an indigent stepparent to appointment of counsel
• “the Act’s primary interest is protecting children, which often trumps other competing goals of the Act”
• stepparents who demonstrate a full commitment to raising and caring for their stepchildren are generally charged with the rights and duties attributed to natural parents
• “the Act’s primary interest is protecting children, which often trumps other competing goals of the Act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).