Legal Opinion
Turner v. Rogers
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 20, 2011No. 10-10PublishedCited by 364 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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[564 U.S. 435]
2Opinion of the Court · BreyerJustice Breyer
South Carolina’s Family Court enforces its child support orders by threatening with incarceration for civil contempt those who are (1) subject to a child support order, (2) able to comply with that order, but (3) fail to do so. We must decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause requires the State to provide counsel (at a civil contempt hearing) to an indigent person potentially faced with such incarceration. We conclude that where as here the custodial parent (entitled to receive the support) is unrepresented by counsel, the State need not…
3Cases cited39 opinions
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