ADOPTION OF SERENA

No. 05-P-199.

64 Mass. App. Ct. 260 (2005)

ADOPTION OF SERENA.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

August 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry C. Porter for the mother.

Christine A. Baily, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the child.

Present: Cowin, Smith, & Green, JJ.


GREEN, J.

On appeal from a decree terminating her parental rights to consent to the adoption of her daughter, the mother's principal argument is that the judge erred in allowing a clinical psychologist to testify about communications by the mother during a psychological evaluation conducted by the psychologist, because the communication was privileged under G. L. c. 233, § 20B, and the psychologist did not adequately inform the mother that the communications...

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