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County agrees to assume payment responsibility for privately filed termination-of-parental-rights defense
3780803 · June 12, 2025
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Summary
The Uintah County Commission approved a contract form to have the county pay legal defense fees in privately filed termination-of-parental-rights cases after the Indigent Defense Commission stopped processing those payments. Staff expects a small annual cost and said historic volume is low.
Lance Dean of the public defender's office told the commission that the Indigent Defense Commission would no longer handle payments for private petitions to terminate parental rights and that the statutory obligation to provide…
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