Pippinger v. Benson

WAYMOND M. BROWN, Judge.

11 This appeal involves young J.P. J.P.’s mother passed away, and his father, Derek, later remarried Andrea Pippinger (J.P.’s godmother). Andrea later petitioned to adopt J.P. Doris Benson and Bertie Blasingame, J.P.’s maternal grandmother and great-grandmother, opposed the petition and filed a request for visitation. After a trial, the circuit court denied Andrea’s adoption petition and ordered visitation. The Pippingers argue that the circuit court erred in (1) allowing Benson and Blasingame to intervene in the adoption proceeding, (2) ordering visitation, and (3)…