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ADOPTION OF GALEN

425 Mass. 201 (1997)

ADOPTION OF GALEN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine Triantafillou (Joyce Kauffman with her) for the petitioners.

Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, & Richard I. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Sarah R. Wunsch & Mary L. Bonauto for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.

MARSHALL, J.

The petitioners, two women whom we shall call Nancy and Laura, challenge an order entered by a judge of the Suffolk Division of the Probate and Family Court Department denying their motion to waive a Department of Social Services (department) home study pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 5A, in connection with their joint petition to adopt Nancy's biological child, whom we shall call Galen. We remand the case...

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