Legal Opinion

Adoption of Thea

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided February 25, 2011No. 10-P-1671PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtKafker, J.

The mother appeals from the decree terminating her parental rights to her deeply troubled seventeen year old daughter. The child, Thea, contends that the decree should be affirmed, but that the Juvenile Court judge erred in not ordering *819posttermination visitation. We conclude that the finding of parental unfitness was supported by clear and convincing evidence, but we are unable to determine on the record before us whether the termination of parental rights was in the best interests of Thea as the plan proposed for this high risk teenager by the Department of Children and Families…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Adoption of MaryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
  2. Adoption of VitoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
  3. Adoption of CarlosMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
  4. Adoption of NancyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
  5. Petitions of the Department of Social Services to Dispense With Consent to AdoptionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Adoption of OlivetteMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2011
  2. Care & Protection of JamisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
  3. In re Adoption XolaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2017

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