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CARE AND PROTECTION OF WALT

SJC-12295.

478 Mass. 212 (2017)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF WALT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

October 20, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Balmelli O'Connor , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the father.

Bryan K. Clauson ( Marianne W.B. MacDougall also present) for the child.

Richard A. Salcedo for Department of Children and Families.

Evan D. Panich , Katrina C. Rogachevsky , Jessica Berry , Susan R. Elsen , & Jamie Ann Sabino , for Children's Law Center of Massachusetts & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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

Under G. L. c. 119, § 29C, if a Juvenile Court judge grants temporary custody of a child to the Department of Children and Families (department), the judge "shall certify that the continuation of the child in his home is contrary to his best interests and shall determine whether the department ... has made reasonable efforts prior...

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