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ADOPTION OF ASTRID

No. 96-P-1713.

45 Mass. App. Ct. 538 (1998)

ADOPTION OF ASTRID.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

October 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret M. Geary for the mother.

Charles G. Murphy for the father.

Peter T. Wechsler, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Patricia A. Cantor for the child.

Present: PORADA, KAPLAN, & BECK, JJ.

BECK, J.

Astrid was born in Massachusetts on October 15, 1993. Her parents' home State is more than 1,000 miles away. The mother came to Massachusetts on October 6, 1993, gave birth, and returned to the parents' home State on October 20, 1993, a few hours after the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) obtained an emergency order granting DSS temporary custody of the five day old baby. So far as the record shows, the father has never been in Massachusetts...

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