In Re: Adoption of R.A.B., Appeal of: N.M.E.

OPINION BY

GANTMAN, P.J.:

Appellant, N.M.E., appeals from the order entered in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Orphans’ court, which denied his petition to annul or revoke the adult adoption of R.A.B., Jr. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

The relevant facts and procedural history of this case are as follows. On April 20, 2012, N.M.E. filed a petition to adopt R.A.B., Jr., his same-sex partner of over forty years, for the purposes of becoming a family unit and for financial and for estate planning. The Orphans’ court granted the petition on July 12, 2012. When marriage…