Matter of Adoption of Gardiner

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves the question of the jurisdiction of an adoption court to grant visitation privileges to the natural grandparents of the child. Chester and Lavona Crawley, maternal grandparents, appeal from a decree modifying a clause in an adoption decree allowing them to visit their grandchild Timothy O’Brien Gardiner. The adoption decree named Dale and Kathleen Gardiner as Timothy’s adoptive parents. The Crawleys assert that the trial court committed a number of errors in the modification proceeding. With permission, the parties filed supplemental briefs on the…