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ADOPTION OF DONALD

No. 97-P-1927.

44 Mass. App. Ct. 857 (1998)

ADOPTION OF DONALD & another.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Essex.

May 27, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. McCarthy, Jr., for the mother.

Steven L. Wollman for the children.

Virginia A. Peel for Department of Social Services.

Present: KASS, JACOBS, & PORADA, JJ.

PORADA, J.

The principal issue presented by this case is whether the ten-day appeal period of G. L. c. 119, § 27, or the sixty-day appeal period of Mass.R.A.P. 4(a), as amended, 395 Mass. 1110 (1985), governs an appeal from a decision of the District Court adjudicating children in need of care and protection, awarding their permanent custody to the Department of Social Services (department), and dispensing with...

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