Legal Opinion
Adoption of a Minor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 6, 1959PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
This is a petition filed April 6, 1956, for the adoption of a minor boy, born in February, 1956. The department of public welfare eventually 1 filed a report disapproving the proposed adoption. The natural parents of the child were not married to each other at the time of the child’s birth or when the petition was filed but were married November 30, 1956, some seven and one half months after the filing of the petition. They opposed the adoption, although the mother had consented in writing to the adoption before the filing of the petition for adoption. The probate judge by final decree on…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Richards v. ForrestMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Hopkins v. HopkinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Davis v. SearsTexas Commission of Appeals · 1931
- Wyness v. CrowleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- In Re Adoption of AndersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1951
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Petition of the New England Home for Little WanderersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- In Re the Department of Public Welfare to Dispense With Consent to AdoptionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Petition of Dept. of Public WelfareMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Youmans v. RamosMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Adoption of a MinorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
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