Legal Opinion
L.W. v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided August 23, 1996No. 95-2932PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JOANOS, Judge.
We are asked to review the denial of attorney’s fees and costs to an indigent parent for her defense of a juvenile dependency proceeding. The issue is whether counsel should be appointed to represent indigent participants in juvenile dependency proceedings, where the allegations of the petition for dependency raise a substantial likelihood that the indigent participant would be unable to speak effectively for himself or herself. We conclude that counsel should have been appointed in this case, and reverse the order under review.
On January 21 and 27, 1995, the Department of…
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