PETITION FOR REVOCATION OF JUDG. FOR ADOPTION OF MINOR


393 Mass. 556 (1984)

471 N.E.2d 1348

PETITION FOR REVOCATION OF A JUDGMENT FOR ADOPTION OF A MINOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley H. Cooper for the grandmother.

Robert N. Brown for adoptive parents.

Charles G. Murphy for Department of Social Services.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & NOLAN, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

This is an appeal by the maternal grandmother of a minor from the denial of a petition for revocation of a judgment of adoption. Pursuant to G.L.c. 210, § 3, the child was adopted by foster parents. We transferred the case to this court on our own motion. We affirm.

The events leading to this appeal are as follows: The child was born in 1975 and placed in the care of the Department of Social Services (department) in 1978, pursuant to a voluntary...

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