In the Matter of Carson

This is an appeal from a probate judge’s "dismissal” of a petition brought under the provisions of G. L. c. 210, § 3 (a)(ii) and (c), as appearing in St. 1972, c. 800, § 2, by Pamela Ansaldi (Pamela) and her third husband Richard J. Ansaldi (Ansaldi), for the adoption and change of name of Pamela’s three-year-old son, Mark, now age eight, by her first husband Raymond A. Yorke (Yorke), who intervened in opposition to the allowance of the petition. The petition alleged that Frederick W. Carson, Pamela’s second husband, was the child’s father.

*666This is Pamela’s second appeal to this court from…