Tiffany Williams Brewer, The Not-So-Obvious and Inconvenient Truth: Reexamining a Right to Counsel for Parents and Children in Abuse and Neglect Administrative Proceedings, 35 Widener Commonwealth L. Rev. 215 (2025) (arguing that Gideon v. Wainwright should be expanded to administrative proceedings involving parents facing inclusion on state child abuse and neglect registries).
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.”).
Julie P. Shelton, Indigents Have No Right To Appointed Counsel In Proceedings To Terminate Parental Rights – Lassiter v. Department of Social Services, 31 DePaul L.J. 152 (Fall 1981).
Amie K. Wilcox, Civil Right To Counsel For Indigent Parents In Contested Adoptions: An Argument For Due Process And Equal Protection When Parental Rights Are Terminated In Private Civil Actions, 56-SUM Ark. Law. 22 (2021).
Elizabeth Thornton and Betsy Gwin, High-Quality Legal Representation for Parents in Child Welfare Cases Results in Improved Outcomes for Families and Potential Cost Savings, Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 46 Issue 1, p139-154 (Spring 2012).
Note: Child Neglect: Due Process for the Parent, 70 Columbia Law Review 465 (1970).
Barbara Glesner Fines, Almost Pro-Bono: Judicial Appointments of Attorneys in Juvenile and Child Dependency Actions,72 UMKC L. Rev. 337 (2003).
Judge Leonard Edwards, Representation of Parents and Children in Abuse and Neglect Cases: The Importance of Early Appointment, 63(2) Juvenile and Family Court Journal 21 (Spring 2012).
Judge Leonard Edwards, Engaging Fathers in the Child Protection Process: The Judicial Role, Juv. and Fam. Ct. J. (2009).
Linda Elrod, Child Custody Practice and Procedure Database, Child Custody Prac. & Proc. § 12:4 (updated Oct. 2009).
