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CARE AND PROTECTION OF JAMISON

SJC-11452

467 Mass. 269 (2014)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF JAMISON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Franklin-Hampshire.

February 20, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Balmelli O'Connor , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the siblings of Jamison.

Margaret M. Geary for the guardians.

Beth M. Nussbaum for Jamison.

Lynne M. Murphy for Department of Children and Families.

Cara M. Cheyette for the mother.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.

LENK, J.

We are called upon in this case to decide, first, whether the Juvenile Court has subject matter jurisdiction over petitions for sibling visitation pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 26B (b), where the petitioning child is in State custody and his siblings are wards in the custody of legal guardians, and, second, whether the presumption of validity afforded parental decisions regarding grandparent visitation pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 39D, recognized...

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