Petition of DIS

PRYOR, Chief Judge:

In this case, we review an order of the trial court granting a petition by maternal grandmother, D.I.S., to adopt S.A.O., a six-year old girl. In the trial court, and now on appeal, S.A.O.’s foster mother, S.J.G., and the child’s guardian ad litem, opposed D.I.S.’ petition to adopt her granddaughter. Finding no abuse of discretion in the trial judge’s ruling that adoption of S.A.O. by D.I.S. is in the best interests of the child, we affirm.

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S.A.O. was born on December 7, 1978 to M.O., a Guyanese mother, and J.O., a Colombian father. S.A.O.’s father, J.O., was not in the…