2017 Massachusetts General Laws
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE III DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 210 ADOPTION OF CHILDREN AND CHANGE OF NAMES
Section 11 Appeals

Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 210 § 11 (2017)

Section 11. The supreme judicial court may allow a parent, who, upon a petition for adoption, had no notice of the proceedings before the decree and had neither waived notice in accordance with section two nor been the subject of a decree dispensing with need for notice in accordance with section three, to appeal therefrom within one hundred and twenty days after actual notice thereof.

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