Legal Opinion
Adoption of Rory
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 23, 2011No. 10-P-2246PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The Department of Children and Families (department) filed petitions under G. L. c. 119, § 24, alleging that Rory and Sam were children in need of care and protection. After separate trials on each petition, a judge in the Juvenile Court concluded that both children were in need of care and protection and dispensed with the need for their father’s consent to adoption, guardianship, custody, or other disposition of the *455children pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 26, in accordance with G. L. c. 210, § 3, which effectively terminated the father’s parental rights.2
The father filed a motion for leave to…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Custody of Two MinorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Department of Public Welfare v. J. K. B.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Harris v. SannellaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- O'Dea v. J.A.L., Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1991
- Care & Protection of ErinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Adoption of GabeMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2013
- Gianareles v. ZegarowskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- In re R.A.M.Colorado Court of Appeals · 2014
- Genzer v. ZhoginaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2018
- In re Adoption (AndMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2018
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