In re Adoption of C.S.

HALL, Chief Judge.

The primary issue presented by the DHHR’s writ application and appeal in this adoption proceeding is whether the Second Judicial District Court for Jackson Parish, sitting as a juvenile court, lacked jurisdiction or authority to grant temporary custody of the two minor children to petitioner, their grandfather, prior to the entry of an interlocutory decree of adoption. The children had previously been placed in the custody of DHHR by a judgment or judgments of the Tenth Judicial District Court for Natchitoches Parish, sitting as a juvenile court, which declared the children…