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· 4/26/1962

Surrender of Minor Children

Citations

  • 181 N.E.2d 836
  • 344 Mass. 230
  • 1962 Mass. LEXIS 723

How courts have described this case

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  • only way to withdraw consent to an adoption that was given with full understanding of all necessary facts is to secure the permission of a probate judge
  • despite coercive nature of circumstances no basis for finding duress in mother’s decision to surrender child as circumstances were properly and unmistakenly in contemplation of the mother and represented good reason for her action

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Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Whittemore, Cutter, Kirk

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