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IN THE MATTER OF HILARY

450 Mass. 491 (2008)

IN THE MATTER OF HILARY (and a consolidated case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 5, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret Clapp Winchester, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Dawn M. Messer, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with her) for the mother of Hilary.

Claudia Leis Bolgen (Pedro R. Lara with her) for the mother of Annamaria.

Daniel J. Hammond, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Michael F. Kilkelly, for Annamaria, was present but did not argue.

Lisa H. Thurau-Gray & Frank Laski, for Parent/Professional Advocacy League & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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

IRELAND, J.

The issue of first impression that we decide in these consolidated cases from the Worcester County and Essex County Divisions of the Juvenile Court Department, which are here on a reservation and report, without decision, from a single justice of this court, is whether, after a child is adjudicated a child in need of services (CHINS), a parent is entitled to counsel at the dispositional phase of the proceeding...

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