Adoption of Bowling v. Bowling

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

In this case Jimmy Ralph Bowling opposes the termination of his parental rights and the adoption of his son Tommy (Thomas Stevenson Bowling II) by the child’s maternal grandmother, Muriel Sweet Keck Ahlers. The child’s paternal grandparents, Thomas Stevenson Bowling and Evelyn Ruth Bowling, also oppose the adoption. The child’s mother was murdered by her husband, Jimmy Bowling, on November 19, 1975.

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A month after Jimmy Bowling killed his wife, Tommy’s paternal grandparents, the Thomas Bowlings, petitioned in Chancery Court to adopt the child. Ms. Ahlers intervened, also…