In re Anonymous

John D. Bennett, S.

This is a motion by the stepmother of an infant under 14 years of age to dismiss the application of the infant’s maternal grandmother to intervene in the stepmother’s petition to adopt the infant and to stay the proceedings.

The infant was born in March of 1958. Her mother died a year later and her father took the child to live with her maternal grandmother for a period of time up to and until 1962 when the stepmother and the infant’s father married. The child thereafter lived with her father and stepmother until the child’s father died in September of 1964 leaving a will…