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IN RE JONATHAN M.

(SC 16330)

255 Conn. 208 (2001)

IN RE JONATHAN M.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released January 16, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond J. Rigat, for the appellant (petitioner father).

Eliot D. Prescott, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan T. Pearlman, assistant attorney general, for the appellee (respondent department of children and families).

Jeanne Milstein and Christy Scott filed a brief for the state office of the child advocate as amicus curiae.

McDonald, C. J., and Norcott, Katz, Palmer and Sullivan, JS.

Opinion

KATZ, J.

The principal issue in this appeal is whether a petition for habeas corpus is the appropriate procedural vehicle through which a party may challenge a judgment terminating his or her parental rights based upon a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.1 We conclude that a habeas petition may not be so used to attack collaterally the termination judgment.

Neither party in this case disputes the...

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