In re T.B.

[¶ 1] The father appeals from a judgment entered in the District Court (Water-ville, Dow, J.) terminating his parental rights to three-year-old T.B. See 22 M.R.S. § 4055(1)(B)(2) (2012). The father’s sole argument on appeal is that, prior to trial, he was denied due process when the court did not, on its own initiative, inform him that he could proceed without counsel after denying the father’s motion to dismiss his current counsel and his implicit motion to appoint new counsel to represent him at trial. We affirm the judgment.

I. CASE HISTORY

[¶ 2] The father, now forty-four years old, has a…