Custody of Lori

A mother sought relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3, in the county court from the order of a Probate and Family Court judge, issued sua sponte without an evidentiary hearing, removing her child from her custody and placing the child in the *317custody of the Department of Social Services (department), pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 23 (C), pending a forensic evaluation. A single justice denied the mother’s petition for relief and she appealed to the full court. Although the child was returned to her mother’s custody at the completion of the forensic evaluation some five months after the removal,…