ADOPTION OF DIANE


400 Mass. 196 (1987)

508 N.E.2d 837

ADOPTION OF DIANE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 8, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Silevitch for the mother.

Lisa A. Levy, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Present: WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

On January 11, 1985, pursuant to G.L.c. 210, § 3 (1985 Ann. Supp.), a judge of the Probate and Family Court Department allowed the petition of the Department of Social Services (department) to dispense with parental consent to adoption. A judge of the District Court previously had ordered, pursuant to G.L.c. 119, § 26 (1984 ed.), that the child, born June 9, 1974, be committed to the department "until she becomes eighteen years of age or until...

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