Justice Administrative Commission v. Berry

WELLS, Judge.

In these separate petitions for writ of certiorari, the Justice Administrative Commission seeks review of two final orders directing it to pay attorneys’ fees to two attorneys, Manuel Garcia and Maria Berry, for representing putative fathers in separate termination of parental rights (“TPR”) proceedings. We consolidate the petitions for purposes of review and grant the petitions, finding that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law in ordering the Commission to pay attorneys’ fees where indigency was not, because it could not be, determined. See…