In Re Adoption of LLV and SAV

TR and FR, husband and wife, petitioned-the Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court of Shannon County for permission to adopt two siblings, a boy, LLV, and a girl, SAV. § 453.010. 1 To satisfy the requirements of § 453.080 that the persons sought to be adopted shall have been in the lawful and actual custody of the petitioners for a period of at least nine months prior to the entry of the adoption decree, petitioners also filed their petition for temporary legal custody with the court. The paternal rights of the natural parents of the girl, SAV, had been previously terminated (§ 211.441 et…