In re Adoption of Arnold

ANDREWS, Acting Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Dan Ballinger and Helen Frances Ballinger from a final decree denying their petition for adoption and awarding custody of Deborah Ann Arnold, a minor, to the mother, Chloe Ann Rouzer.

The petitioners seeking to adopt Deborah Ann Arnold are the natural parents of the mother of the child and maternal grandparents of the child and were 55 and 51 years of age, respectively, at the time the petition for adoption was filed. The respondent, Chloe Ann Rouzer, is their only child, and was 25 years old at the time the petition was filed.

When the…