State In re of Love

PLOTKIN, Judge.

This is a custody suit between non-parents.

Lillie Love instituted a writ of habeas corpus to gain custody of De’Sha Denise Love, her granddaughter. She now appeals the trial court judgment granting custody of the minor to appellees Deborah and Hilton Nicholson.

Cheronda Love gave birth to De’Sha on June 24, 1986.1 Cheronda was then fourteen years old and living with her mother’s friend, Valerie Johnson. Lillie Love, Cher-onda’s mother, was involved with caring for her own mother, Lillie Johnson who was in Charity Hospital, and with her own financial problems in June of 1986, the…