ADOPTION OF LINUS

No. 08-P-1334.

73 Mass. App. Ct. 815 (2009)

ADOPTION OF LINUS (and a companion case).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 12, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah W. Kirchwey for the father.

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the mother.

Lynne M. Murphy for Department of Children and Families.

Penny Nasios for the children.

Present: McHUGH, DREBEN, & KATZMANN, JJ.


DREBEN, J.

After a trial with intermittent hearings over a period of fourteen months on a care and protection petition filed by the Department of Children and Families (department) in 2002, a judge of the Juvenile Court adjudicated the biological mother and father unfit to parent their children Linus and Malcolm and terminated their parental rights pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3. Both the mother and father appeal...

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