CUSTODY OF MICHEL

No. 88-P-1361.

28 Mass. App. Ct. 260 (1990)

549 N.E.2d 440

CUSTODY OF MICHEL & three other minors.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

February 7, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jamie Ann Sabino for the parents.

Douglas H. Wilkins, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Bernard W. Fang & Jonathan Brant, for the three younger minors, submitted a brief.

Present: WARNER, C.J., ARMSTRONG, & KASS, JJ.


KASS, J.

As of the time this opinion is written, the ages of the four children concerned are thirteen, eight, seven and five. A District Court judge, acting on a petition for care and protection (G.L.c. 119, §§ 24 and 26), adjudged that neither their biological mother nor father was currently fit to act as a parent and that the children were in need of care and protection. Accordingly, the judge committed the children temporarily to the custody of the Department...

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