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STATE IN INTEREST OF JOHNSON

No. 85-CK-0582.

475 So.2d 340 (1985)

STATE In the Interest of JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion September 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Daspit, Francisco Perez, Richard J. Brazan, Baton Rouge, for applicant.

Bernard Hardy, Mazie Doomes, Mark A. Holden, Sherrill Davidson, Edselle Cunningham, William Grimley, Baton Rouge, for respondents.

DENNIS, Justice.

We are called upon to decide who should be required to pay the fee of an attorney appointed to represent an indigent parent in a child abandonment proceeding in the absence of a statute authorizing the fee or its payment. After a hearing, the family court dismissed the Department of Health and Human Resources' suit for a declaration of abandonment and ordered the department to pay the attorney's fee. The court of appeal affirmed the court's order...

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