Legal Opinion
Adoption of Rhona
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided February 28, 2003No. 01-P-1472PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTrainor, J.
This is an appeal by both the mother and the father from a Boston Juvenile Court judge’s grant of a petition of the Department of Social Services (department) to adjudicate their child to be in need of care and protection, pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 26, and to dispense with their consent to the adoption of their child, pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3. The decree issued on June 29, 2000, and findings were entered on September 27, 2000, two years after trial ended on August 13, 1998.
The mother argues that (1) the judge’s ultimate finding that she is currently unfit to act as a parent of the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Petition of the New England Home for Little WanderersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Building Inspector of Lancaster v. SandersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Custody of EleanorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Custody of Two MinorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Adoption of MaryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
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3Cited by17 opinions
- In Re Samone H.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 2005
- Adoption of GillianMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2005
- Adoption of RhonaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2005
- In Re Adoption/Guardianship of Alonza D.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 2010
- Adoption of DanielMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2003
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