Matter of Adoption of KAS
North Dakota Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
LEVINE, Justice.
We are confronted with the issue of the right of an indigent parent to appointed counsel in an involuntary termination of parental rights under NDCC Chapter 14-15. T.D.K. [“Tom”], 1 denied the right to appointed counsel below, appeals from a district court judgment which terminated his parental rights to K.A.S. [“Karl”], and granted the petition of D.S. [“Debra”] and B.R.S. [“Brad”] for Brad to adopt Karl. We hold that Tom was entitled to court-appointed counsel in these proceedings to involuntarily terminate his parental rights and we reverse and remand for a new trial.
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