Breanna Madison, NOTE: Whose child are you? Protecting black children and families predisposed to the harms of the family regulation system, 67 How. L.J. 155 (2023-2024) (proposing “solutions to correct the errors of Lassiter and overall issues with the United States’ handling of child neglect cases in two ways: (1) asserting that there is an implied fundamental right to be parented to heighten the level of scrutiny in parental rights cases and (2) recognizing children as a suspect classification to address the invidious discrimination that occurs in child neglect procedures.”).

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Research Report: Assessing a Parent Representation Program in Texas (June 2013) (assessing the effects of Travis County’s early representation pilot parent project on juvenile dependency outcomes).

Uniform Law Commission, Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements (UGCOPA) Act (2017).

In re Guardianship of V.V., No. SJC-11739 (Mass. 2015).

Paula Roberts and John Ott, The Right to Counsel in Paternity Proceedings, Clearinghouse Review 18 (1985).

Meg Buice, A Father’s Right to Counsel in Georgia Juvenile Court Legitimation Proceedings: Closing the Due Process Loophole, 29 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 865 (Spring 2013).

Laura Hunter Dietz, Illegitimate Children, 41 Am. Jur. 2d Illegitimate Children § 52 (2010).

Mark Esterle, Gideon’s Trumpet Revisited: Providing Rights of Indigent Defendants in Paternity Actions, 24 J. Fam. L. 1 (1985) (on file with the NCCRC).

Barbara Hartung, The Right to Appointed Counsel in Paternity Actions, 19 Journal of Family Law 497 (1980-1981).

Kristine Cordier Karnezis, Right of Indigent Defendant in Paternity Suit To Have Assistance of Counsel at State Expense, 4 A.L.R.4th 363 (1981).