Care and Protection of Zelda

How courts have described this case

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

• analogizing to Mass.R.Civ.P. 24, 365 Mass. 769 [1974], intervention as a matter of right
• mother unfit and father acknowledged paternity in G. L. c. 119, § 24, proceeding in the Juvenile Court
• foster parent and her sister appealed interlocutorily from order denying motion to intervene, where they sought intervention as of right
• \the judge shall prescribe what place the applicants [seeking to intervene] ... will have in the proceeding and what steps they may take\
• judge did not abuse discretion in denying foster parents' motion to intervene in care and protection proceedings where their interests were adequately represented by existing parties
• even though Mass. R. Civ. P. inapplicable in Boston Juvenile Court proceedings, Rule 24 applied as an “expression of Commonwealth policy” and as a “cogent standard” for intervention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).