ADOPTION OF BETSY

No. 06-P-696.

69 Mass. App. Ct. 907 (2007)

ADOPTION OF BETSY (and two companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts.

July 31, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the mother.

Kari Kipf Horstmann for Department of Social Services.

Garry M. O'Brien for the children.


The biological mother appeals from decrees finding her unfit and that the Department of Social Services' plan that her three children, Betsy, a daughter born in 2003, and a son and daughter, Eric and Lucille, born in 2004 (the twins), be adopted by the families with whom they were put in foster care following their births was in the children's best interests. The mother, with a family history of mental illness, has bipolar disorder, and her principal argument on appeal is...

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