In re the Adoption of Infant Sherman

CONCURRING OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

L.C.F. (“Appellant”), gave up her son (“Infant Sherman”) for adoption. The adoption was finalized by a Virgin Islands court. Several decades later, Appellant motioned the trial court for an order, to unseal her son’s adoption records. The trial court denied her request. Subsequently, Appellant filed a motion for the trial court to reconsider its decision. In her motion for reconsideration, Appellant requested for the first time that a guardian ad litem be appointed to ascertain the parties’ (Adopted parents’ and Infant Sherman’s) actual interest in having the…