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ADOPTION OF GRETA

431 Mass. 577 (2000)

ADOPTION OF GRETA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia A. Peel, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

David A.F. Lewis for the mother.

Dawn E. LiVigne, for the child, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, IRELAND, & COWIN, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

This appeal arises from the granting of a petition of the Department of Social Services (department or DSS) to dispense with parental consent to adoption of a child, whom we shall call Greta, pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3.1 Born in December, 1992, Greta is now seven years old. She has lived with her foster mother (also her preadoptive mother) since she was six days old.

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