ADOPTION OF BOWLING v. BOWLING


631 S.W.2d 386 (1982)

In re ADOPTION OF Thomas Stevenson BOWLING, II, Muriel Ahlers, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Jimmy Ralph BOWLING, Respondent-Appellant, and Thomas Bowling and Wife, Evelyn R. Bowling, Intervenors-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry P. Black, Jr., Knoxville, for respondent-appellant.

Joseph J. Levitt, Jr., Knoxville, for intervenors-appellants.

Charles D. Mounger, Charles E. Rader, Knoxville, for petitioner-appellee.


OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

In this case Jimmy Ralph Bowling opposes the termination of his parental rights and the adoption of his son Tommy (Thomas Stevenson Bowling II) by the child's maternal grandmother, Muriel Sweet Keck Ahlers. The child's paternal grandparents, Thomas Stevenson Bowling and Evelyn Ruth Bowling, also oppose the adoption. The child's mother was murdered by her husband, Jimmy Bowling, on November 19, 1975.

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