There is no automatic conflict of interest when lawyers working in the same regional office of the Public Defender’s Office of Parental Representation act for opposing parents arguing about child custody matters, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
But the three-judge Appellate Division panel, in a published ruling released Nov. 22, said judges do have the right to investigate whether there could be a conflict of interest if one or both of the parents object.
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