Pippinger v. Benson

PAUL E. DANIELSON, Justice.

| |Andrea Pippinger appeals from the circuit court’s order denying her petition to adopt J.P., her stepson, and appellant Derek Pippinger appeals from the circuit court’s order granting visitation with his son, J.P., to appellees Doris Benson and Bertie May Blasingame, J.P.’s maternal grandmother and great-grandmother. The Pippingers originally appealed the circuit court’s order to the court of appeals, and that court affirmed. See Pippinger v. Benson, 2011 Ark. App. 442, 384 S.W.3d 614. They petitioned this court for review, which we granted. Upon granting a…