Lockey v. Bennett

Jordan, Justice.

These two appeals challenge the validity of an adoption of a ten-month-old girl by her paternal grandparents. The appellants are her maternal grandparents.

Before the child was born, the natural parents, both being very young, had considered the possibility of the paternal grandparents adopting her. Instead, they tried to care for the child which resulted in her becoming very ill. The DeKalb County Juvenile Court then placed the child in the temporary custody of the maternal grandparents. At that point, the paternal grandparents obtained the consent to adoption from both…