Petrosky v. Keene

OPINION

REID, Justice.

This case presents for review the competing claims of Hugh Petrosky, the natural father of Brandon Scott Keene, who now is 10 years old and resides with his father, and Louise Keene, the child’s maternal grandmother. The Juvenile Court of Sullivan County awarded custody to the father. The Court of Appeals reversed and awarded custody to the grandmother. The record requires that the decision of the Court of Appeals denying the father custody be reversed and that the father’s petitions for legitimization and custody be granted.

The child was born in September 1984 in…