Wilkins v. Department of Human Resources

Bell, Justice.

This case is here on certiorari to the Court of Appeals. Wilkins v. Dept. of Human Resources, 174 Ga. App. 105 (329 SE2d 266) (1985). The facts of the case are summarized in the Court of Appeals’ opinion and will only be repeated here in relevant part.

We granted certiorari to consider several issues, only one of which we now find necessary to address. That issue is whether Wilkins, the putative father of J. H. (a minor child born to a woman married to a man other than Wilkins), was entitled to appointed counsel under OCGA § 15-11-30 (b) during a hearing of a petition filed by…