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M.L.B. v. S.L.J. 519 U.S. 102 (1996) was a United States Supreme Court case regarding a controversy over the Fourteenth Amendment. The petitioner M.L.B. argued that the Mississippi Chancery Courts could not terminate her parental rights on the basis that she was unable to pay the court fees. M.L.B. had been sued by S.L.J. to terminate M.L.B.’s parental rights and gain the ability to adopt the children. The judge declared in favor of S.L.J.