IN RE AKERS

No. 6011-1.

22 Wn. App. 749 (1979)

592 P.2d 647

In the Matter of the Welfare of MICHELLE AKERS, ET AL, MELINDA HEARD, Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One.

March 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip J. Bertenthal of Northwest Washington Legal Services, for appellant.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, Kenneth MacIntosh, Assistant, Knappe & Knappe, P.S., and Charleton F. Knappe, for respondent.


DORE, J.

Melinda Heard appeals from an order permanently depriving her of all parental rights to her children.

ISSUES

1. Whether the parent's constitutional right of due process was violated by the court interviewing the children and taking testimony from a caseworker outside of court which evidence was not subject to cross-examination or rebuttal testimony which apparently the trial court used in making its decision ordering permanent deprivation...

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