Dickey v. Boxley

OSBORNE, Judge.

In the Fayette Circuit Court a judgment of adoption was entered, effecting the adoption of a one-year-old girl by the ap-pellees Julian Wendell Boxley and his wife Glynda Poole Boxley. Feeling some doubt as to his right to grant adoption under the findings of fact he had made, the trial judge appointed a special guardian ad litem for the child for the purpose of taking an appeal. Pursuant to that appointment the special guardian ad litem has taken this appeal. The Boxleys and the Kentucky Department of Child Welfare are the appel-lees.

In his findings of fact the trial judge…