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· 3/15/1842

City of Boston v. Inhabitants of Dedham

Citations

  • 45 Mass. 178

How courts have described this case

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  • requiring best-interests inquiry at termination stage to focus on specific needs of child rather than qualifications of parent
  • terminating parental rights based in part on results of psychological evaluation

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Judges: Dewey

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