WAUKESHA, Wis. — The Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled that a father’s request for judicial substitution should have been granted, and that custody of his daughter should not have been transferred to the state on claims that her parents neglected her. The presiding judge told the father’s former attorney to leave the “attorney signature” line blank on the substitution form, then denied the request for want of a signature. A new trial will occur before a different circuit court judge.
Read the ruling here.
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