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PETITION OF DEPTARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

383 Mass. 376 (1981)

419 N.E.2d 285

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

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 9, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda F. Smith for the defendants.

Maureen L. Fox, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Public Welfare.

Jeremy A. Stahlin (R. Susan Dillard with him) for Boston Children's Service Association.

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

ABRAMS, J.

The natural parents of a minor child appeal from a judgment of the Probate Court permitting the adoption of their child without their consent. G.L.c. 210, § 3 (b). The natural parents did not oppose the proposed adoption by the child's foster parents, but urged the judge to grant them postadoption visitation rights under a so called "open adoption" plan. The judge declined to order postadoption visitation rights.1

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