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CARE AND PROTECTION OF LAURA

414 Mass. 788 (1993)

610 N.E.2d 934

CARE AND PROTECTION OF LAURA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

April 9, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander G. Gray, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General (Melissa Edmondson with him) for Department of Social Services.

Dennis R. Brown for the parents.

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

LYNCH, J.

This case presents an issue of first impression in the Commonwealth: whether so-called "subsidiary facts" in a care and protection proceeding brought pursuant to G.L.c. 119, § 24 (1990 ed.), must be proved by clear and convincing evidence. The Department of Social Services (department) filed the instant care and protection petition on behalf of Laura in the District Court.1 After...

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