Department of Social & Health Services v. Willis

*790¶1 The parents of J.R.U.-S. (J.U.) are the subjects of both a criminal investigation and dependency proceedings involving J.U. The principal issue before us is whether the courts in the dependency proceedings abused their discretion when they allowed the parents’ counsel to attend court ordered psychological evaluations.

Agid, J.

¶2 We conclude that while the parents had no constitutional or statutory right to counsel during their evaluations, the courts did not abuse their discretion because the parents’ Fifth Amendment rights were implicated, and the immunity statute provides inadequate…