Kevin Cassaday v. Kelli Cassaday, aka Kelli Brozanski

Whether a State may allow a divorce judgment and related property disposition to proceed against an incarcerated self-represented party after receiving actual notice of his incarceration and inability to appear, where jail officials allegedly prevented his attendance at scheduled hearings and the trial court proceeded without first providing meaningful opportunity to be heard.

Whether due process and the constitutional right of access to the courts are violated when state courts decline meaningful merits review of a family-status judgment entered after the State had notice that the litigant was incarcerated, objecting that he was being blocked from participating in his own case, and contemporaneously subject to federal competency proceedings.

Whether a State may rely on default, waiver, or nonappearance principles to sustain a family-status judgment where the record shows that the litigant timely objected, sought adjournment, and asserted that state custodial actors were preventing his participation. Page 2 of 19