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PARTY FACING POSSIBLE INCARCERATION IN SUPPORT PROCEEDINGS IS ENTITLED TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, FATHER HERE DID NOT RECEIVE MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATION.

The Second Department determined father had a right to meaningful assistance of counsel in proceedings stemming from a failure to pay court-ordered child support. The court further found father’s counsel was ineffective because no attempt was made to submit proof father could not work due to his mental illness:

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With respect to this proceeding, Family Court Act § 262(a)(vi) extends the right to counsel to “any person in any proceeding . . . in which an order or other determination is being sought to hold such person . . . in willful violation of a previous order of the court,” because such persons potentially may be incarcerated. The possibility of incarceration exists where a party fails to comply with a support order, since Family Court Act § 454(3) authorizes the court, upon a finding that a respondent “has willfully failed to obey any lawful order of support,” to “commit the respondent to jail for a term not to exceed six months.”

The statutory right to counsel afforded under Family Court Act § 262(a)(vi) would be “meaningless unless the assistance of counsel is effective” … . Accordingly, in support proceedings such as this one in which a party faces the potential of imprisonment and has a statutory right to counsel, we hold that the appropriate standard to apply in evaluating a claim of ineffective assistance is the meaningful representation standard.  Matter of Nassau County Dept. of Social Servs. v King, 2017 NY Slip Op 02992, 2nd Dept 4-19-17

 

FAMILY LAW (PARTY FACING POSSIBLE INCARCERATION IN SUPPORT PROCEEDINGS IS ENTITLED TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, FATHER HERE DID NOT RECEIVE MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATION)/ATTORNEYS (FAMILY LAW, PARTY FACING POSSIBLE INCARCERATION IN SUPPORT PROCEEDINGS IS ENTITLED TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, FATHER HERE DID NOT RECEIVE MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATION)/CHILD SUPPORT (PARTY FACING POSSIBLE INCARCERATION IN SUPPORT PROCEEDINGS IS ENTITLED TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, FATHER HERE DID NOT RECEIVE MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATION)

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