Talmo v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Framingham

How courts have described this case

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

• finding insufficient evidence to adjudicate children on ground they had been exposed to mother’s persistent drug use when mother had placed children in grandmother’s care
• finding abandonment was not same as lacking proper parental care and must be separately alleged
• § 43-282 allows proceedings to be transferred, after adjudication, to county where juvenile lives or is domiciled
• “‘preponderance of the evidence’” is equivalent to the “greater weight of the evidence,” which means evidence sufficient to make a claim more likely true than not true
• “‘preponderance of the evidence’ . . . is the equivalent of the greater weight of the evidence”; “greater weight of the evidence means evidence sufficient to make a claim more likely true than not true”
• “‘preponderance of the evidence’ . . . is the equivalent of the greater weight of the evidence”; “greater weight of the evidence means evidence sufficient to make a claim more likely true than not true”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).