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HATCH v. ANDERSON

Docket: Pen-09-509.

4 A.3d 904 (2010)

2010 ME 94

Richard HATCH v. Melissa ANDERSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: September 30, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nora Healy, Esq. (orally), Misti D. Munster, Esq. , Verrill Dana, LLP, Portland, ME, for Richard Hatch.

Hunter J. Tzovarras (orally), Hampden, ME, for Melissa Anderson.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.

SILVER, J.

[¶ 1] Richard Hatch appeals from a judgment, entered in the District Court (Bangor, Gunther, J.), granting Melissa Anderson sole parental rights to the parties' two children and denying Hatch visitation while he is incarcerated. Hatch did not have an attorney representing him at the hearing. He argues that we should recognize a right of indigent persons to court-appointed counsel in family matters when parental rights are at risk of a de facto...

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