In re Adoption of Peterson

DAUKSCH, Judge.

The matter concerns adoption and custody of a 4V2 year old girl, who has resided with her maternal grandparents since the death of her mother when the child was less than 2. years old. Her father, Leonard Peterson the Appellee, consented to a custody order being entered in favor of Earl and Mildred Rogge,- the grandparents-Appellants in 1974.

In the action below the grandparents sought to adopt the child and sever the rights of the father to the child. The father countered with a petition to change the custody of the child from the grandparents to himself. The court denied the…