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MATTER OF ADOPTION OF GARDINER

No. 2-63109.

287 N.W.2d 555 (1980)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION of Timothy O'Brien GARDINER, a minor. Chester CRAWLEY and Lavona Crawley, Appellants, v. Dale GARDINER and Kathleen Gardiner, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Ferree, Panora, for appellants. Robert Y. Taylor, of Taylor, Taylor & Feilmeyer, Guthrie Center, for appellees.

Considered by LeGRAND, P. J., and REES, UHLENHOPP, ALLBEE, and LARSON, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves the question of the jurisdiction of an adoption court to grant visitation privileges to the natural grandparents of the child. Chester and Lavona Crawley, maternal grandparents, appeal from a decree modifying a clause in an adoption decree allowing them to visit their grandchild Timothy O'Brien Gardiner. The adoption decree named Dale and Kathleen Gardiner as Timothy's adoptive parents. The Crawleys assert that the trial court...

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