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PETITION OF D.I.S.

No. 84-1138.

494 A.2d 1316 (1985)

In the Matter of the Petition of D.I.S. for the Adoption of S.A.O.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 3, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Henning Vent, Washington, D.C., with whom Wallace J. Mlyniec, and Vince Forte, Law Student Counsel, were on brief, for S.A.O.

Donald L. Hamer, for S.J.G.

Betty S. Walker, for D.I.S.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and FERREN and BELSON, Associate Judges.

PRYOR, Chief Judge:

In this case, we review an order of the trial court granting a petition by maternal grandmother, D.I.S., to adopt S.A.O., a six-year old girl. In the trial court, and now on appeal, S.A.O.'s foster mother, S.J.G., and the child's guardian ad litem, opposed D.I.S.' petition to adopt her granddaughter. Finding no abuse of discretion in the trial judge's ruling that adoption of S.A.O. by D.I.S. is in the best interests of the child, we affirm...

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