In re K.L.B.

OPINION

KLAPHAKE, Judge.

This appeal concerns the district court’s dismissal of the adoption petition filed by appellants K.L.B. and J.A.B. (appellants), the maternal aunt and uncle of L.J.D., a severely brain-injured child. Three other petitions to adopt L.J.D. and his brother, C.T.D., had been previously filed: one by the children’s paternal grandparents; one by their maternal grandmother, Kathy Roering; and one by a foster parent couple, T.D. and C.D. (respondents). All of the early petitioning parties reached an agreement that Roering would adopt C.T.D. and that respondents would adopt…