CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Right to Counsel
.........Child Support/Paternity Actions
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Requirements for child support agency to enter into child support agreement with noncustodial parent includes advising of right to counsel.

In paternity cases where state appears as a party or on behalf of a mother or child, indigent defendants are constitutionally entitled to appointed counsel.

Appointed counsel for father on appeal in W&IC 11350 support proceedings necessary where state has elected to represent mother.

Paternity judgment may be set aside if D proves that he was unaware of right to hearing and right to present defense with assistance of counsel.

Cases discussing various aspects of right to counsel in state initiated paternity and child support cases.