ADOPTION OF THOMAS


408 Mass. 446 (1990)

559 N.E.2d 1230

ADOPTION OF THOMAS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Berkshire.

September 25, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David O. Burbank for the petitioners.

Arnold Rosenfeld & Jinanne S.J. Elder, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


O'CONNOR, J.

The child, who is the subject of this action, was born on May 14, 1989. Nine days later, his unmarried parents signed a form stating that they "voluntarily and unconditionally surrender[ed]" their child to the Berkshire Center for Families and Children, Inc. (agency), for the purpose of allowing the agency to find adoptive parents. See G.L.c. 210, § 2 (1988 ed.). The mother was fourteen years old, an eighth...

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