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Adoption of Warren

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided April 28, 1998No. 97-P-1242PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.

A father appeals from a judgment of the Brockton District Court which committed his son, Warren, to the custody of the Department of Social Services (DSS) and dispensed with the need to notify him or obtain his consent on any petition for the adoption of Warren. We affirm.

*621Warren was bom in Massachusetts on September 24, 1989. On October 11, 1994, DSS filed a care and protection petition on behalf of Warren, pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 24, and requested that he be committed to the custody of DSS. The petition was subsequently amended to request that the District Court dispense with the need…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Petition of the New England Home for Little WanderersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
  2. Custody of EleanorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
  3. Adoption of KimberlyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
  4. Care and Protection of LauraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
  5. Adoption of NicoleMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1996

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Bester v. Lake County Office of Family & ChildrenIndiana Supreme Court · 2005
  2. Adoption of VitoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
  3. Adoption of WillowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
  4. Adoption of RhonaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2005
  5. Green v. Division of Family ServicesSupreme Court of Delaware · 2004

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