Termination of Parental Rights

By: Derek Hawkins//August 2, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. K.H.

Case No.: 2016AP1180

Officials: BRASH, J.

Focus: Termination of Parental Rights

K.H. appeals the order that terminated her parental rights to M.E.H.G. and denied her postdispositional motion after this matter was remanded to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing. She argues that this court should vacate her no-contest plea because it was not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily made. She further argues that her due process rights were violated because the factual basis for the plea was established after the plea colloquy rather than before, and the trial court then relied on those facts despite K.H.’s dispute of some of those facts. We disagree and affirm.

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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