Benavidez v. Oliva

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE RECHENMACHER

delivered the opinion of the court:

Amuflo and Isabel Oliva, the maternal grandparents of Christina Marie Oliva, a minor, appeal from the order of the circuit court of Kane County denying their petition to intervene in certain adoption proceedings. The child, Christina, was bom out of wedlock on December 17,1972, to Sylvia. Oliva, daughter of the appellants herein. The petition to intervene states that the child’s mother “surrendered and abandoned the child to the petitioners [Olivas] during January of 1976 and the child resided with the petitioners for four…