Legal Opinion
Care & Protection of Olga
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided April 23, 2003No. 02-P-595PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcHugh, J.
Parental cocaine addiction and domestic violence led the Department of Social Services (department) to file a *822petition for care and protection of Olga, then twelve, and her brothers, Joseph, then four, and Daniel, then two and one-half, in February, 1998. The department obtained custody of the children and placed them in a foster home. Ultimately, the department sought a dispensation from parental consent to adoption of the two boys and custody of Olga until she reached the age of eighteen. Following a ten-day trial, a judge granted the petition. From the resulting judgment and decrees, the…
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