In re S.L.M.

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., P.J., M.S.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which WILLIAM B. CAIN and PATRICIA J. COTTRELL, JJ., joined.

This appeal involves an acrimonious dispute over the custody of two adolescent children. The children’s father and their maternal grandparents have litigated over custody in the courts of two states and the federal courts for the past nine years. The current proceeding began when the children and their father were expelled from Mexico following the father’s indictment in Tennessee for murdering the children’s mother. After the grandparents filed a petition…