What did the court decide in Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County?
Answered for: US
we thus draw from them the presumption that an indigent litigant has a right to appointed counsel only when, if he loses, he may be deprived of his physical liberty
The Court held there is no automatic right to appointed counsel in parental-rights termination proceedings, leaving the question to case-by-case determination.
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