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GUARDIANSHIP OF PENATE

SJC-12138, SJC-12184.

477 Mass. 268 (2017)

GUARDIANSHIP OF YOSSELIN GUADALUPE PENATE. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE v. MANUEL MORALES LOPEZ & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 9, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valquiria C. Ribeiro for Marvin H. Penate.

Jennifer B. Luz (Joshua M. Daniels also present) for E.G.

Elizabeth Badger for Kids in Need of Defense & others, amici curiae.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, William C. Peachey, Erez Reuveni, & Joseph A. Darrow, of the District of Columbia, for the United States.

Mary K. Ryan & Meghan S. Stubblebine for American Immigration Lawyers Association, New England Chapter, & others.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, HINES, GAZIANO, LOWY, & BUDD, JJ.

In these appeals brought by E.G., an eight year old undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and Yosselin Guadalupe Penate, a nineteen year old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, we consider for the second time3 the statutorily mandated role of the Probate and Family Court (and the Juvenile Court) in a...

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