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U.S. Supreme Court Holds Civil Contemptor Facing Incarceration Requires Procedural Safeguards Absent Counsel

The U.S. Supreme Court held on June 20, 2011 that counsel need not be provided to a person facing civil contempt for failure to pay child support so long as the state has “in place alternative procedures that assure a fundamentally fair determination of the critical incarceration-related question: whether the ...

 

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