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PETITION OF CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU

18 Mass. App. Ct. 656 (1984)

469 N.E.2d 1277

PETITION OF CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON, INC., TO DISPENSE WITH CONSENT TO ADOPTION.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

October 19, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda E. Giles for the mother.

William J. Lundregan for Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston, Inc.

Present: BROWN, KASS, & SMITH, JJ.

KASS, J.

As required, the judge's findings "focused principally on the mother's fitness — her capacity to assume parental responsibility." Petition of the Dept. of Social Servs. to Dispense with Consent to Adoption, 392 Mass. 696, 700 (1984). In making his findings and arriving at the conclusion that "the biological parents1 are currently unfit to assume responsibility for the child," the...

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