GUARDIANSHIP OF PENATE

SJC-12138, SJC-12184.

477 Mass. 268 (2017)

GUARDIANSHIP OF YOSSELIN GUADALUPE PENATE. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE v. MANUEL MORALES LOPEZ & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 9, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valquiria C. Ribeiro for Marvin H. Penate.

Jennifer B. Luz ( Joshua M. Daniels also present) for E.G.

Elizabeth Badger for Kids in Need of Defense & others, amici curiae.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, William C. Peachey , Erez Reuveni , & Joseph A. Darrow , of the District of Columbia, for the United States.

Mary K. Ryan & Meghan S. Stubblebine for American Immigration Lawyers Association, New England Chapter, & others.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, HINES, GAZIANO, LOWY, & BUDD, JJ.


In these appeals brought by E.G., an eight year old undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and Yosselin Guadalupe Penate, a nineteen year old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, we consider for the second time3 the statutorily mandated role of the Probate and Family Court (and the Juvenile Court) in a...

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