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PETITION OF DEPT. SOC. SERV. TO DISPENSE WITH CONSENT

384 Mass. 707 (1981)

429 N.E.2d 685

PETITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO DISPENSE WITH CONSENT TO ADOPTION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 15, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Stone for the minor.

Michael Broad, Assistant Attorney General (Kenneth B. Grooms with him) for Department of Social Services.

Paul F. Donovan for the mother.

James F. McHugh, R.J. Cinquegrana & John Reinstein, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

A judge of the Probate Court reserved and reported two issues raised by the natural parent (mother)2 at a hearing on the Department of Social Services' (department) petition to dispense with consent to adoption. G.L.c. 210, § 3 (b). At the outset of the hearing the department disclosed to the court the identity of the prospective adoptive family and filed a motion "to compel...

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