Adoption of Abigail

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• best interests of child rather than rights of parent are determinative in allowing postadoption visitation
• § 20B is privilege “which a patient may exercise”; where “[n]o effort was made to do so,” no error in admitting psychologists’ reports
• “special needs are relevant because they bear on whether this particular mother [i.e., the biological mother] can be a fit parent to this particular child”
• \A past pattern of behavior is . . . not irrelevant; it has prognostic value\
• child's \special needs are relevant because they bear on whether this particular [parent] can be a fit parent to this particular child\
• child's special needs relevant in determining parental fitness as to that child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).