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ADOPTION OF NADIA

No. 96-P-1063.

42 Mass. App. Ct. 304 (1997)

ADOPTION OF NADIA & others.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Hampden.

March 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen A. Townsend for the father.

Ann Balmelli O'Connor for Department of Social Services.

Dorothy Meyer Storrow for the children.

Present: PORADA, GILLERMAN, & GREENBERG, JJ.

GREENBERG, J.

On June 17, 1994, six months after the birth of the parents' fifth child, the Department of Social Services (department) filed a petition, pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3, to dispense with the need for the parents' consent to the adoption of their children. Neither party disputes the incapacity of the children's mother at the time the petition was heard by a Probate Court judge on November 2, 1995. The question is the fitness of the father at that...

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