Legal Opinion
Opinion No. 71-407 (1972) Ag
Oklahoma Attorney General Reports
Decided March 31, 1972Published
1Opinion of the Court
REPRESENTATION OF CHILD IN JUVENILE PROCEEDINGS In counties where there exists an office of public defender, the public defender shall assume the duties of representation of children in juvenile proceedings if the child of his parents are indigent, but the Court may appoint a private attorney in a case where there is no finding of indigency. The Court may order parents of a child against whom a juvenile petition has been filed and who have been determined not to be indigent to pay necessary attorney's fees on behalf of the child. The Attorney General has considered your request for an opinion…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- School Dist. No. 18, Garvin Co. v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1909
- Lamb v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1956
- Tuttle v. WillsonOhio Supreme Court · 1840
- Howell v. Blesh ReedSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1907