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PETITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

396 Mass. 485 (1986)

487 N.E.2d 184

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

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

January 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel S. Hendrie (David R. Heckman with him) for the mother.

Suzanne E. Durrell, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

James H. Fogarty for the minor.

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

WILKINS, J.

The mother of a child born in 1980 appeals, through new appellate counsel, from a judgment of the Bristol County Probate and Family Court dispensing with the need for her (and the father's) consent to the adoption of her son. See G.L.c. 210, § 3 (1984 ed.). She argues that the admission of testimony from a psychiatrist appointed by the judge to examine her was error because her communications to the psychiatrist...

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