In re R.L.L. & J.M.L.

Hunt, Justice.

The trial court granted temporary custody of the two minor children to their maternal grandmother in this custody dispute between the grandmother and the father. We granted the father’s application for certiorari from the Court of Appeals’ denial of his application for interlocutory appeal.

The mother was awarded custody on the parents’ divorce in 1980. When the mother died in 1984, the children stayed with the grandparents for about eight months until the father took them to Florida where he lives. In 1986, the trial court granted temporary custody of the children to their…