Cunningham v. Gray

In this family law case, we review the trial court’s action in granting a stepfather’s petition for adoption over objection of the child’s natural father.

In April of 1978, appellees Rosalind M. Gray and Charles M. Gray filed a petition in the court below for the adoption by Mr. Gray of Tracy Michelle Cunningham and for change of her name. The child was nine years of age and the natural daughter of Mrs. Gray by her former marriage to appellant Roland David Cunningham, Jr. After the appropriate investigation and a hearing upon the natural father’s objection to the proposed adoption, the trial…