The New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether indigent parents who initially agree to give up their children through a private adoption agency but later change their minds should be given court-appointed counsel if they want to challenge petitions to have their parental rights terminated.
The issue arose when an indigent woman, years after she moved to put up her daughter for adoption because she believed she could no longer care for the child, changed her mind and was forced to represent herself at a bench trial.
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