Krystek v. Schumacher

A judgment was entered dissolving the marriage of Mary and Kim Schumacher. Mary was awarded custody of the couple’s three minor children, Cindy, Peter, and Christopher, subject to Kim’s specified visitation rights. Subsequently, Kim’s mother, Lucille Schumacher, sought and obtained an order granting her weekly visitation with the children.

After Lucille filed her petition, but before the visitation order was entered, Mary and her new husband, Wayne K. Krystek, instituted an action to adopt the three Schumacher children. The adoption was ordered, after a hearing at which Lucille and her…