CARE & PROTECTION OF VALERIE


403 Mass. 317 (1988)

529 N.E.2d 146

CARE AND PROTECTION OF VALERIE (and nine companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

October 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Merlin for the mother.

Ruth A. Bourquin, Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of Social Services.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

A mother of five children makes a two-fold appeal: (1) from the adjudications that her children were in need of care and protection pursuant to G.L.c. 119, § 24 (1986 ed.), and (2) from the allowance of the petitions to dispense with consent to the adoption of these children under G.L.c. 210, § 3 (1986 ed.). A judge of the District Court Department was authorized to hear the petitions by the Chief Administrative...

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