IN RE S.M.

No. WD 50666.

938 S.W.2d 910 (1997)

In re S.M. and A.M., Respondents, T.H. and S.P., Respondents, v. A.S., Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied March 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Ketchmark, Larson & Larson, Kansas City, for appellant.

Kim S. Summers, Dysart Taylor Penner Lay & Lewandowski, Kansas City, for Guardian Ad Litem.

James A. Durbin, Swanson Midgley Gangwere, Kitchin & McLarney, Kansas City, for respondents T.H. and S.P.

Before EDWIN H. SMITH, P.J., BRECKENRIDGE and ELLIS, JJ.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied March 4, 1997.

BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

Joela and Frank are orphaned refugees from the African nation of Burundi.1 They immigrated to the United States in 1991 with an aunt and a cousin, and lived with those relatives as a family until the aunt's death. After the aunt's death, two competing petitions were filed requesting appointment...

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