IN RE LUSCIER

No. 43037.

84 Wn.2d 135 (1974)

524 P.2d 906

In the Matter of the Welfare of ALEXANDER H. LUSCIER et al., Minors.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

July 25, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.K. Hallam, for petitioner.

L. Edward Brown, Prosecuting Attorney, by Dennis R. Colwell, Deputy, for respondent.

Norman Rosenberg, Daniel C. Wershow, David A. Leen, and Mary E. Howell, amici curiae.


FINLEY, J.

The Court of Appeals, Division Two, pursuant to RCW 2.06.030, has certified an issue of "whether the right of a parent to his children is sufficiently fundamental to entitle an indigent parent to appointment of counsel at public expense in a permanent child deprivation proceeding as a matter of constitutional law."

On April 4, 1973, a petition was filed in the Superior Court for Grays Harbor County alleging the dependency, per RCW 13.04.010, of...

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