Adoption of Zoltan

The mother appeals from a decree of a Berkshire County Juvenile Court judge dispensing with consent to the adoption of her minor child. She argues that the evidence and the judge’s subsidiary findings do not adequately support the conclusions that the mother is currently unfit to parent the child and that termination of her parental rights is in the child’s best interests. We agree and vacate the decree allowing the petition to dispense with consent to adoption.

1. Background. Zoltán, who was bom in 2004, first came to the attention of the Department of Social Services (department) on…