D.B. v. J.E.H.

THOMAS, Judge.

D.B. and E.B. (“the custodians”) appeal from the denial of their request to transfer the adoption proceeding instituted by J.E.H., Jr., and L.H. (“the maternal grandmother”) to adopt M.H. (“the child”) to the juvenile court.

The child was born in March 2002. Her mother, San.H., signed a consent-to-adoption form in November 2002, granting her consent to adoption of the child by the custodians. Instead of filing an adoption petition, the custodians filed an action in juvenile court requesting that they be given custody pursuant to the consent form until a one-year period had…