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L.B. v. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT DEPARTMENT

SJC-11892.

474 Mass. 231 (2016)

L.B. & another v. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT DEPARTMENT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 4, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Williams Gal ( Christina L. Paradiso with her) for L.B. & another.

Norah E. Kane for the minor children of L.B.

Jo Ann Shotwell Kaplan , Assistant Attorney General, for Chief Justice of the Probate and Family Court Department.

Deborah W. Kirchwey for the minor child of C.L.

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.

Susan M. Finegan , Sandra J. Badin , & Geoffrey A. Friedman , for S.D., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

Present: SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

In Guardianship of V.V., 470 Mass. 590 (2015), we held that a parent whose minor child is the subject of a guardianship petition pursuant to G. L. c. 190B, § 5-206, and who cannot afford counsel has a right to have counsel appointed and to be so informed. The issue in this case is whether...

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