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ADOPTION OF WILLOW

433 Mass. 636 (2001)

ADOPTION OF WILLOW & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

April 6, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A.F. Lewis for the mother.

Virginia A. Peel, Special Assistant Attorney General (Christopher E. Lee, Assistant General Counsel, with her) for the Department of Social Services.

Susan F. Drogin for the children.

Deborah D. Wolf, for the father, was present but did not argue.

Margaret Clapp & Juliette Hall for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, SPINA, COWIN, & SOSMAN, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

This appeal arises from petitions of the Department of Social Services (department) to dispense with the need for a mother's and a father's consent to the adoption of their three children. G. L. c. 210, § 3. The mother, a resident of Massachusetts, is divorced from the children's father, who resides in Oklahoma with his current wife. A judge in the Juvenile Court allowed the department's petition with respect to the mother only. He found that the...

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