Adoption of Vito

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 2000-05-18

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Marshall, C.J. This appeal arises from the denial of a petition to dispense with parental consent to adoption. 2 The case concerns a child who tested positive for cocaine at the time of his birth in January, 1992, and who has lived with his foster parents (also his preadoptive parents) since he was discharged from the hospital one month after his birth. Vito has never lived with his biological mother.<…

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