In re Adoption K.B.M.

By Judge Clifford R. WEckstein

These proceedings involve a seven-year-old boy, K.B.M. (“the child”), bom on September 10,1985. The child’s paternal aunt and her husband (“petitioners”) seek to adopt him. Three of the child’s maternal aunts (“the aunts”) have petitioned for visitation with the child. The adoption proceeding is pending in the Circuit Court of the City of Radford. The visitation petitions were filed in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court of the City of Radford and are before the Circuit Court on appeal from orders of the district court.

The child’s mother died on…