T.E.S. v. D.J.L.

HOWARD, Judge.

This case involves the adoption of two young girls. The girls’ foster parents (hereinafter “the foster parents”) filed a petition for adoption of the girls in the Circuit Court of Grundy County, Missouri, on November 5, 1997. Their maternal grandfather and his wife, their step-grandmother, (hereinafter “the grandparents”) filed a petition for transfer of custody and adoption of the girls in the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Missouri, on November 12, 1997. That case was subsequently transferred to Grundy County. On March 22, 1999, the court entered a judgment granting the…