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PETITIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

389 Mass. 793 (1983)

452 N.E.2d 497

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

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 1, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard I. Shapiro for the mother.

Despena Fillios Billings, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

This case involves appeals by the natural mother from judgments of the Probate and Family Court allowing two petitions of the Department of Social Services (department) to dispense with the need for consent of and notice to the mother in any subsequent proceedings for adoption of her male and female twin children who were born on November 8, 1975. We affirm the judge's decisions.

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