ADOPTION OF GABE

No. 12-P-1237.

84 Mass. App. Ct. 286 (2013)

ADOPTION OF GABE (and one companion case).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Berkshire.

September 25, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy Meyer Storrow for the father.

Mark A. Papirio for the children.

April Ann Knapp, pro se.

Present: BERRY, SIKORA, & MILKEY, JJ.


SIKORA, J.

The issue on appeal is whether a biological father (father) had a right to counsel in the adoption proceeding terminating his parental rights. The father appeals from decrees of the Probate and Family Court (probate court) approving the adoption of his two sons and severing his parental rights and duties. The petitioners are the children's mother and stepfather. Throughout the proceeding in the probate...

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