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ADOPTION OF MARLENE

443 Mass. 494 (2005)

ADOPTION OF MARLENE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

February 17, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the father.

Virginia A. Peel for Department of Social Services.

Brigid Kennedy-Pfister for the child.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

COWIN, J.

In this case, we consider the effect of a parent's consent to adoption on that parent's duty to support his or her child. The child involved here, whom we shall call Marlene, was the subject of a care and protection petition, and after her attorney petitioned for child support on her behalf, her father voluntarily consented to her adoption under G. L. c. 210, § 2. A judge in the Juvenile Court granted the child's motion for

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