ADOPTION OF WILLIAM

No. 94-P-1737.

38 Mass. App. Ct. 661 (1995)

ADOPTION OF WILLIAM.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Wagner for the father.

Susan Walewicz for Department of Social Services.

Jacqueline L. Freeman for the minor.

Present: ARMSTRONG, JACOBS, & PORADA, JJ.


JACOBS, J.

William's father1 appeals on two grounds from a decree entered pursuant to G.L.c. 210, § 3, dispensing with the need for parental consent to a petition for the adoption of William.2 He claims that his waiver of his right to counsel was invalid and his exclusion, by a Probate Court judge, from a portion of the trial violated his constitutional...

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