P.W. v. M.S.

No. 06-P-307.

67 Mass. App. Ct. 779 (2006)

P.W. v. M.S.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 28, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald A. Witmer for the father.

Margot Ames Clower (Karen Dean-Smith with her) for the mother.

Present: Cypher, Doerfer, & Mills, JJ.


CYPHER, J.

This interlocutory appeal requires us to determine whether a judge of the Probate and Family Court properly could allow a guardian ad litem (GAL) unrestricted access to some 2,000 pages of medical and mental health records of the plaintiff, P.W. (father).2 The father objects to what he claims is the judge's "wholesale delegation [to the GAL] of [the judge's] statutory duty...

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