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FATHER DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN THIS MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT ARREARS PROCEEDING, SUPREME COURT REVERSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined father was denied his right to counsel in this maintenance, child support, eduction and medical expense arrears proceeding:

We agree with the father that he was denied his right to counsel at the hearing to determine whether he was in willful violation of the support order … . Supreme Court “failed to inform the father of his right to have counsel assigned if he could not afford to retain an attorney” … , and failed to grant the father an adjournment at the outset of the second day of the hearing when he requested the assistance of counsel … . To the extent that the father thereafter chose to proceed pro se, the court also failed to “engage the father in the requisite searching inquiry concerning his decision to proceed pro se and thereby ensure that the father was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waiving his right to counsel” … . Villella v Villella, 2018 NY Slip Op 07917, Fourth Dept 11-16-18

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