In re to Adopt T.L.A.

OPINION

MINGE, Judge.

Appellants, great-aunt and great-uncle of T.L.A. and T.E.A., challenge the commissioner’s decision to withhold consent to their adoption of the children. Because Minnesota law allows a biological parent who relinquishes parental rights to direct that the commissioner not consider relatives as an adoptive placement, because the relative preference for adoptive placement is only one factor in determining a child’s best interests, and because the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the commissioner’s decision was in the best interests of the children,…