In Re Adoption B.E.W.G.

BECK, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the York County Common Pleas Court denying without a hearing a petition to unseal and inspect adoption records and to vacate an adoption decree. The appellant-petitioners, Howard West and Kay West (the Wests), are the natural maternal grandparents of the adoptees.

The basis of the trial court’s order was that the Wests lacked standing to obtain the requested relief. We find the Wests have standing and remand for a hearing as to whether the adoption records should be unsealed and inspected. We also find that the Wests have standing as to whether…