Civil RTC News
This page lists all of the most recent developments on civil right to counsel across the country. These could be newly created rights to counsel, significant publications, public events, advocacy efforts, or other things that don’t fit into a neat category.
Right to counsel – Release of confined person’s medical records
indigent mental hospital inpatients have a right to counsel for hearings on release of their mental health records for investigative purposes.
Right to counsel
A court must arguably appoint counsel for respondents in certain involuntary treatment proceedings.
Right to counsel
A statute guarantees counsel for indigent respondents in adult protective proceedings.
Discretionary appointment of counsel
A court may appoint counsel for a respondent in a guardianship proceeding.
Right to counsel
A court must appoint counsel, paid for by the county, for a minor seeking to bypass parental consent for an abortion, including for the appeal.
Right to counsel
There is a right to counsel for indigent individuals subject to a court order of quarantine, isolation, or testing for communicable disease.
Right to counsel
Various statutes guarantee counsel for indigent parents in termination of parental rights proceedings, including appeals.
Discretionary appointment of counsel – Parents in juvenile proceedings generally
The court has the discretionary power to appoint counsel for the parent in “any other [juvenile] proceeding.”
Discretionary appointment of counsel
The court may appoint counsel for a child in a termination of parental rights proceeding.
Right to counsel
The intermediate court found that the statutory right to counsel in termination of parental rights cases extends to adoptions.
Discretionary appointment of counsel
The trial court has discretion to appoint counsel for any indigent litigant in civil cases in certain circumstances.
Discretionary appointment of counsel
An appellate court found that due process might require counsel for an indigent litigant in an adoption proceeding.