Adoption of Ilona

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 2011-03-04

Cited by 227 later decision(s) in our corpus · see the citation network in Lexace

Open in Lexace · Ask the AI about this case

From the opinion

Gants, J. The Department of Children and Families (department) filed a petition under G. L. c. 119, § 24, alleging that Ilona was a child in need of care and protection. 2 After five days of trial, a judge in the Juvenile Court found that Ilona’s mother and father were “currently unfit, unable and unavailable to further the welfare and best interest of [Ilona]” and that their unfitness was “likely to co…

Read the full opinion (source) ↗


Lexace provides legal information, not legal advice, and no attorney–client relationship is created. Citation figures are counts of later citing opinions in our corpus and may be incomplete; always read and Shepardize the full opinion before relying on it.