In re K.M.M.

¶ 1. The appeal before us involves the custody of K.M.M., a child who has been a ward of her grandfather since her parents entered into a voluntary guardianship in 2001 when she was eleven months old. Despite father’s petitions to terminate the guardianship, first filed in 2002, and grandfather’s petitions to terminate parental rights and for adoption, there has been no resolution of this family drama for nine years. In 2009, the matter was eventually heard by the Caledonia Superior Court, on appeal from the Caledonia Probate Court. The superior court denied grandfather’s petition to…