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PETITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

22 Mass. App. Ct. 62 (1986)

491 N.E.2d 270

PETITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO DISPENSE WITH CONSENT TO ADOPTION (and a companion case).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bette Ann Winik for the mother.

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

Susan Klueppel for the minor.

Jacquelynne Bowman, Susan H. Levin, & Susan G. Anderson, for Jane Doe & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GRANT, CUTTER, & KASS, JJ.

GRANT, J.

The unwed mother of the child has appealed from decrees adverse to her which have been entered in a Probate Court on separate petitions filed by the Department of Social Services (department) (1) to obtain custody of the child (G.L.c. 119, § 23[C], as appearing in St. 1973, c. 925, § 40) and (2) to dispense with any need for consent to adoption of the child (G.L.c. 210, § 3[b] [as most recently amended by St. 1983, c. 437] and [c...

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