ADOPTION OF SAUL

No. 03-P-269.

60 Mass. App. Ct. 546 (2004)

ADOPTION OF SAUL.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts.

March 3, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry C. Porter for the mother.

R. Scott Miller, Jr., for the father.

Sheila L. York, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Robert D. Dimler for the child.

Present: Lenk, Smith, & Duffly, JJ.


Suffolk.

DUFFLY, J.

In this appeal by the biological parents from a decree dispensing with their consent to the adoption of their child, the mother claims that psychiatric records admitted in evidence containing references to diagnoses of her mental illness are subject to the psychotherapist-patient privilege under G. L. c. 233, § 20B. The father appeals solely from the denial of his request for postadoption...

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