IN INTEREST OF M.D.(S)

Nos. 90-0659, 90-1369.

163 Wis.2d 687 (1991)

472 N.W.2d 819

IN the INTEREST OF M.D.(S), a child under the age of 18: A.S., Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin, Respondent. IN the INTEREST OF R.A., Jr., a child under the age of 18: A.S., Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin, Respondent. IN the INTEREST OF E.A., a child under the age of 18: A.S., Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin, Respondent, IN the INTEREST OF R.A., Jr., a person under the age of 18: R.A., Sr., Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin, Respondent. IN the INTEREST OF E.A., a person under the age of 18: R.A., Sr., Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided June 6, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant A.S. the cause was submitted on the briefs of Richard J. Auerbach of Auerbach & Porter of Madison; for the appellant, R.A., Sr., the cause was submitted on the briefs of Shelley J. Gaylord of Gaylord & Schuett of Madison.

For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Rodney Knight, assistant corporation counsel for Dane County, and Donald W. Becker, guardian ad litem, of Madison.

Before Eich, C.J., Gartzke, P.J., and Sundby, J.


EICH, C.J.

A.S. and R.A. appeal from an order terminating their parental rights to their children. The issues are: (1) whether the due process provisions of the United States Constitution provide a right to effective assistance of counsel in termination of parental rights (TPR) cases;1 (2) whether the parents' substantive due process rights were violated when they did not receive warnings under the newly amended sec. 48.415(2), Stats....

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