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PETITION OF DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE

376 Mass. 252 (1978)

381 N.E.2d 565

PETITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE TO DISPENSE WITH CONSENT TO ADOPTION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 29, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Tutor (Peggy O'Reilly with him) for the respondents.

James C. Doyle for the Department of Public Welfare.

James M. Cronin for New Bedford Child & Family Service, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The respondent parents appeal from two Probate Court decrees allowing petitions brought by the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) to dispense with parental consent to adoption. The petitions were brought pursuant to G.L.c. 210, § 3, on behalf of the respondents' two minor children.1

The DPW originally filed the petitions in March, 1974. In June, 1974, the respondents obtained a continuance so that psychiatric...

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