Massachusetts General Laws ch. 210 sec. 11 – Appeals
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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.
Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 210 sec. 11
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.