· 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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