Alizota v. Stanfield

DOYLE, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises from the trial court’s entry of judgment terminating Emmanuel Alizota’s parental rights and grant of a petition of adoption of S. K. filed by Ryan and Melissa Stanfield. 1 When this Court originally addressed this appeal, we vacated the *551superior court order terminating Alizota’s parental rights and granting the Stanfields’ petition for adoption because the superior court lacked jurisdiction to enter an adoption order.2 The Stanfields petitioned the Supreme Court for certiorari, which granted the petition and reversed our opinion, holding that because…