ADOPTION OF ELENA


446 Mass. 24 (2006)

ADOPTION OF ELENA (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

January 31, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Pariser for Department of Social Services.

Garry M. O'Brien for the children.

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

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


SPINA, J.

In an unpublished opinion pursuant to its rule 1:28, the Appeals Court vacated the orders of a judge in the Juvenile Court terminating the mother's parental rights to three of her five children.2 The Appeals Court affirmed so much of the orders as determined that the mother was unfit to assume parental responsibilities as of the time of trial, but it concluded that the trial judge failed...

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