Iverson v. Hunt ( 2020 )

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
BRENT IVERSON,1 §
§ No. 158, 2020
Petitioner Below, §
Appellant, §
§
v. § Court Below–Family Court
§ of the State of Delaware
MELISSA HUNT, §
§ File No. CK18-01911
Respondent Below, § Petition No. 18-21231
Appellee. §
Submitted: October 30, 2020
Decided: December 10, 2020
Before VALIHURA, VAUGHN, and TRAYNOR, Justices.
ORDER
After careful consideration of the parties’ briefs and the Family Court record,
we find it evident that the judgment of the Family Court should be affirmed on the
basis of and for the reasons assigned in the Family Court’s orders dated February
26, 2020, and March 26, 2020.2
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the judgment of the
Family Court is AFFIRMED.
BY THE COURT:
/s/ James T. Vaughn, Jr.
Justice
1
The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties under Supreme Court Rule 7(d).
2
In his opening brief, the appellant asked us to appoint counsel to assist him with his appeal.
Because there is no general right to counsel at State expense in civil litigation, see In re Hall, 2005
WL 2473791, at *1 (Del. Aug. 26, 2005), and we were able to understand the arguments that the
appellant made on appeal, we declined to exercise our discretion to appoint counsel to assist him
in these proceedings.