Barr v. Gregor

Adams, Judge.

Appellees Glenda Sue Gregor and Richard James Gregor, the paternal grandmother and paternal stepgrandfather of H. M. S., filed a petition to adopt her after both her parents died. The trial court granted the petition and the appellants, who are relatives of the child, filed the present appeal.

H. M. S.’s father died in 2008 and her mother died in 2009.1 Less than a week after her mother died, a juvenile court in Tennessee, where the mother and H. M. S. had lived, entered an interim order awarding physical custody to the Gregors. In December 2009, another juvenile court in…