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ADOPTION OF PAULA

420 Mass. 716 (1995)

ADOPTION OF PAULA (and six companion cases). CARE AND PROTECTION OF PAULA & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 30, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Kilkelly for the father.

Lucille DiPietro for the mother.

Elizabeth A. Keliher, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Nan Myerson Evans for five minors.

Charles G. Murphy for one minor.

Donna M. Schofield for one minor.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & GREANEY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

In 1991, after a trial held over numerous dates in 1989 and 1990, a District Court judge adjudicated Paula and her five half-sisters, Phyllis, Jennifer, Susan, Kimberly, and Diane, to be children in need of care and protection, and committed them to the custody of the Department of Social Services (department) pursuant to G.L.c. 119, § 24 (1992 ed.). Substitute care review hearings were held, pursuant to...

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