IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF J.T.

No. SJC-11882.

474 Mass. 1006 (2016)

GUARDIANSHIP OF J.T.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

May 4, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan M. Finegan ( Geoffrey A. Friedman & Sandra J. Badin with her) for the mother.

Jamie Ann Sabino , Susan R. Elsen , Mary K. Ryan , & Melanie V. Woodward , for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Inc., & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Andrew L. Cohen , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Jo Ann Shotwell Kaplan , Assistant Attorney General, for Chief Justice of the Probate and Family Court Department, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Richard M. Page, Jr. , for Boston Bar Association, amicus curiae, joined in a brief.


RESCRIPT

This case is before us on a report from a judge in the Probate and Family Court. It concerns a guardianship of a minor child pursuant to G. L. c. 190B. Specifically, the question is whether an indigent parent who petitions to remove a guardian and regain custody of her child, or to establish visitation with the child, has a right to counsel on those petitions. We discharge the report as moot.

The guardian was appointed in accordance with G. L. c...

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