In Re Hunter H.

This is a consolidated appeal from the Circuit Court of Ohio County wherein the circuit court ordered that the minor child, Hunter H. 1 , be permanently placed with his maternal grandmother, rather than his foster parents, whom the child had lived with for three years and who were seeking to adopt him.

The appellants, the foster parents and Hunter H.’s guardian ad litem, appeal from the circuit court’s order and raise three main arguments: (1) the circuit court erred by giving improper weight to the statutory and Department of Health and Human Resources (“DHHR”) policy preference for…