ADOPTION OF HUGO


428 Mass. 219 (1998)

ADOPTION OF HUGO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan F. Drogin for the father.

Margaret M. Geary for the mother.

Katherine M. Potter for Department of Social Services.

R. Susan Dillard, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Andrew L. Cohen, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with her) for the child.

Jacqueline Y. Parker, for National Association of Counsel for Children, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


MARSHALL, J.

The Department of Social Services (DSS or department) and a minor child, whom we call Hugo, appealed from the rulings and order of a judge in the Boston Division of the Juvenile Court Department in a care and protection proceeding under G. L. c. 119, §§ 24-29, and G. L. c. 210, § 3. DSS had proposed that Hugo, now four years old, be adopted by his foster mother, with whom he has lived from the age of two. The judge, in what he described...

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