ADOPTION OF QUERIDA

No. 18-P-915.

94 Mass. App. Ct. 771 (2019)

ADOPTION OF QUERIDA (and a companion case).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

February 11, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the mother.

Andrew J. Haile , Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Children and Families.

Erin M. Noonan for the children.

Present: BLAKE, LEMIRE, & SINGH, JJ.


Following a trial in the Juvenile Court, the judge found that the mother was unfit to assume parental responsibility of two children, terminated her parental rights, and declined to order posttermination visitation. The mother appeals, contending that the Department of Children and Families (department) failed to prove her unfitness by...

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