W.B.Z. v. D.J.

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

B.W.J. was born in 1983 to Y.J. (mother) and W.B.Z. (father). The parents never married. The child lived with his mother.

The mother died in 1991. In July 1991 the maternal grandmother, D.J., filed a petition in juvenile court, alleging that the child was in need of protective care. She requested that she be granted temporary custody of the child.

Subsequent to the mother’s death, the father filed a petition for legitimation of the child. The petition was granted in September 1991.

A hearing on the grandmother’s petition was held in November 1991. The…