Should public defenders be appointed in civil cases?

Should the us government allow public defenders for civil cases ie child custody battles.Should public defenders be appointed in civil cases?
No. I pay enough in taxes without covering civil trials for deadbeats.Should public defenders be appointed in civil cases?
no we have too many lawyers already
No, the states can't afford it. In criminal cases we want to prevent rights from being trampled on. In civil cases especially divorce and child custody cases the harm could have been prevented and is caused by the parties.. To give a public defender in civil cases would be ridiculously expensive...taxes would rise to terrible levels...





You have to also understand that criminal law is completely different from domestic relations, and commercial law, and insurance law, and products liability, and so forth. So to get a competent lawyer we would have to have offices in every state for each area of law....too expensive to imagine...or you would pay attorneys next to nothing.





I have a wife and two kids for example. I was lucky, thanks to an honors scholarship I graduated from law school with only 40,000 dollars of student loan debt. The average student loan debt for a lwyer is over 100,000 dollars and this is not including any debt from undergraduate studies. Can you imagine someone with that amount of debt taking a job for 25,000 a year?