In re the Interest of S.I.G.

On July 27, 1998, a Greene County Deputy Juvenile Officer filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Greene County, Juvenile Division (“juvenile court”), asking the juvenile court to exercise jurisdiction over S.I.G. and J.I.G.,1 female children under seventeen years of age, because they were “in need of care and treatment” in that *617they were “without adequate and proper care, custody, support, supervision and parenting,” and their welfare was in danger. The grandmother of the children, Appellant J.G. (“Grandmother”), had been caring for the children and moved to intervene in the case. Her…