CONSENT TO ADOPTION OF A MINOR


345 Mass. 706 (1963)

189 N.E.2d 505

CONSENT TO ADOPTION OF A MINOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 3, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor G. Fields for the respondent.

John J. Sullivan, Jr., for the petitioner.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & KIRK, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

This is an appeal by the respondent from a decree of the Probate Court for Suffolk County entered May 4, 1962, on a petition of the director of the Division of Child Guardianship of the Department of Public Welfare filed June 7, 1961. The decree ruled that "the consent of and notice to ... [the respondent] is not required upon a petition for adoption of ... [his minor child] ... [subsequently] sponsored by the Department of Public Welfare."

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