PETITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES


392 Mass. 696 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 861

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

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. Lynch (Albert DeNapoli with her) for the mother.

Kim E. Murdock, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

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


WILKINS, J.

In her application for further appellate review following an order of the Appeals Court affirming by summary disposition a decree pursuant to G.L.c. 210, § 3, dispensing with the need for her consent to the adoption of her child, the mother urged, for the first time, that, under arts. 1 and 10 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, any finding of her unfitness as a parent must be supported by proof beyond a reasonable...

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