In Non-Criminal Courts, You Could Lose Your Kids, Your Home, and Your Freedom Without the Right to Legal Advice

The right for criminal defendants in the U.S. to receive free legal representation if they cannot afford it was established by the Supreme Court almost 60 years ago. Yet in non-criminal courts cases across the country, litigants facing forfeiture of parental rights, eviction or foreclosure, and danger from abusive spouses and domestic partners, are subject to loss of child custody, control over assets, property, and even jail time, without ever seeing a lawyer or receiving basic legal advice. Read more here.