Legal Opinion
Adoption of Iris
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 7, 1997No. 96-P-1138PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
The parents of Ms appeal from a 1996 judgment of the Boston Juvenile Court adjudicating their young daughter as in need of care and protection, dispensing with their need to consent to her adoption, and committing Ms to the custody of the Department of Social Services (department) until the adoption plan for her can be effectuated. The proceedings below, as well as the department’s involvement with Ms and her parents, all result from a single unexplained head injury which Iris sustained in the summer of 1993 when she was barely one month old.
*96The parents complain that the burden of proof at…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Custody of EleanorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Custody of Two MinorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Adoption of MaryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Commonwealth v. BohannonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Tosti v. AyikMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Care & Protection of BruceMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1998
- Adoption of RhonaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2003
- Brantley v. Hampden Division of the Probate & Family Court DepartmentMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2010
- Adoption of LelandMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2006
- Adoption of LornaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1999
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