In Re Carey L.B.

This ease is before this Court upon appeal of the final order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County entered April 3, 2008. In that order the circuit court denied the petition of Carey L. B. 1 to adopt the children of his wife, Jamie A.B. and her former husband, Mark D. In this appeal the adoptive father contends that the circuit court erred by denying the adoption. Based upon the record before this Court, the parties’ briefs and arguments in this proceeding, as well as the relevant statutory and ease law, this Court finds that the circuit court erred in its finding that the biological father…