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Indigent parents have a constitutional right to counsel in private guardianship-of-a-minor proceedings.

The SJC recently held in Guardianship of V.V., 470 Mass. 590 (2015) that indigent parents have a constitutional right to counsel in private guardianship-of-a-minor proceedings. A summary of the case and a link to the full opinion can be found here.

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