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· 6/11/1985

In Re Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston, Inc.

Citations

  • 479 N.E.2d 148
  • 395 Mass. 180
  • 1985 Mass. LEXIS 1566

How courts have described this case

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  • judge properly concluded that parent’s unstable housing — moving six times in less than two years —• had deleterious effect on child
  • “evidence supported the judge’s conclusion that the best interest of the child necessitated his living with a parent or parents who were able to contribute to his continued positive development”
  • in a proceeding to dispense with the mother’s consent to the adoption of her child, the judge was warranted in considering the alcoholism and propensity for violence of the father where mother maintained relationship with the father
  • judge properly compared evidence of child's condition while with parent to condition postremoval
  • parent may be fit to raise one child but unfit to raise another

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Judges: Abrams, Hennessey, Liacos, Lynch, Nolan

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