In Re Adoption of B.E.W.G.

WIEAND, Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether the Orphans’ Court in York County, Pennsylvania, could properly order an adoption of two minor children upon the sole consent of the children’s father, who had killed the children’s mother, while a custody action was pending in New York between the children’s father and maternal grandparents, without notice to the maternal grandparents or the New York court in which the custody action was pending.

On December 4, 1983, the children’s father killed their mother by stabbing her to death in the family’s home in Brooktondale, Tompkins County, New…