K.P. v. G.C.

THOMPSON, Judge.

This appeal involves an adoption contest between two sets of foster parents. On September 23, 2002, G.C. and J.C. filed in the Probate Court of Randolph County (“the probate court”) a petition seeking to adopt B.C.T. and C.A.T. (hereinafter together referred to as “the children”), who had been in G.C. and J.C.’s care as foster children between May 2000 and November 2001. At the time G.C. and J.C. filed that adoption petition, an action to terminate the mother’s parental rights was pending in the Circuit Court of Randolph County (that court was acting as a juvenile court and is…