Legal Opinion

Don

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided September 26, 2001PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.

The mother and the father appeal from orders and decrees of the Barnstable Division of the Juvenile Court Department adjudicating their five biological children in need of care and protection pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 26; ordering the commitment of the children to the permanent custody of the Department of Social Services (department); and dispensing with the need for parental consent to adoption pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3, as well as the denial by a single justice of the Appeals Court of the parents’ separate motions to stay the decrees dispensing with their consent to the adoption of…

2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Santosky v. KramerSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Little v. StreaterSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  3. Commonwealth v. AmiraultMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
  4. Commonwealth v. DayeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
  5. Custody of a MinorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Adoption of NancyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
  2. Adoption of JacquesMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2012
  3. Care & Protection of OlgaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2003
  4. Adoption of JohnMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2001
  5. Care & Protection of QuinnMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002

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