Legal Opinion
In Re the Welfare of Luscier
Washington Supreme Court
Decided July 25, 1974No. 43037PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFinley, J.
— The Court of Appeals, Division Two, pursuant to RCW 2.06.030, has certified an issue of “whether the right of a parent to his children is sufficiently fundamental to entitle an indigent parent to appointment of counsel at public expense in a permanent child deprivation proceeding as a matter of constitutional law.”
On April 4, 1973, a petition was filed in the Superior Court for Grays Harbor County alleging the dependency, per RCW 13.04.010, of the children of petitioner Luscier, and that he should be permanently deprived of all parental rights and interests. Subsequent to a June hearing on…
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