White v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
This text of 2009 Ark. 173 (White v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Arkansas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
MOTION FOR RULE ON CLERK
Natasha White, by and through her attorney Jesse L. Kearney, has filed a motion for rule on clerk to accept the record and permission to file a belated brief. Attorney Kearney states in the motion that he is at fault for failing to perfect the appeal.
We now entertain motions for rule on clerk in appeals from termination of parental rights. See Moore v. Arkansas Dep’t of Human Servs., 363 Ark. 205, 212 S.W.3d 1 (2005). We afford indigent parents in termination of parental rights actions similar protections afforded indigent criminal defendants. Latiolais v. Arkansas Dep’t of Human Servs., 368 Ark. 381, 382, 246 S.W.3d 413 (2006). As attorney Kearney has admitted fault, we grant the motion for rule on clerk. See Moore, supra; McDonald v. State, 356 Ark. 106, 146 S.W.3d 883 (2004). A copy of this opinion will be forwarded to the Arkansas Supreme Court committee on Professional Conduct.
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