Opinion ID: 2602482
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Heading: Enactment of Former Section 237.7 of the Civil Code

Text: In 1984, some six years after this court's decision in Jacqueline H., supra, 21 Cal.3d 170, 145 Cal.Rptr. 548, 577 P.2d 683, the Legislature enacted former section 237.7 of the Civil Code. (Stats.1984, ch. 605, § 1, p. 2326.) It provided: Upon appeal from a judgment freeing a minor who is a dependent child of the juvenile court from parental custody and control, the appellate court shall appoint counsel for the appellant as provided by this section. [¶] Upon motion by the appellant and a finding that the appellant is unable to afford counsel, the appellate court shall appoint counsel for the indigent appellant, and appellant's counsel shall be provided a free copy of the reporter's and clerk's transcript. All of those costs shall be a charge against the state. (Italics added; see now Fam.Code, § 7895, subds. (a), (b).)