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ADOPTION OF BROOKE

No. 96-P-1416.

42 Mass. App. Ct. 680 (1997)

ADOPTION OF BROOKE.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Worcester.

May 21, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Harvey for the mother.

Ann Balmelli O'Connor for the Department of Social Services.

Carol A. Erskine for the child.

Present: WARNER, C.J., SMITH, & LAURENCE, JJ.

WARNER, C.J.

The mother1 appeals from a decree dispensing with the need for her consent to the adoption of her child, Brooke. We must decide whether her counsel was ineffective2 in failing to assert at trial that the Department of Social Services (department), by placing Brooke in a non-Christian preadoptive home despite her Catholic mother's request to the...

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