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ADOPTION OF CHRISTINE

405 Mass. 602 (1989)

542 N.E.2d 582

ADOPTION OF CHRISTINE (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vida K. Berkowitz for the mother.

Jon Laramore, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Joan Rines Needleman for the minor.

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

LIACOS, C.J.

In these consolidated cases,2 the mother's principal argument on appeal is that the ineffectiveness of her trial counsel requires us to reverse the judgment of the trial judge awarding permanent custody of the child to the Department of Social Services (department), G.L.c. 119, §§ 23-27 (1988 ed.), and allowing the petition of the department to dispense with the need for...

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