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IN RE ADOPTION OF A.K.S.R.

71 S.W.3d 715 (2001)

In re ADOPTION OF A.K.S.R. and A.T.S.R.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section, at Nashville.

Permission to Appeal Denied February 11, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Rutherford, Nashville, TN, for appellants, Glendon Todd Williams and Donna Elaine Williams.

Andrew R. Tillman and Summer H. Stevens, Knoxville, TN, for appellee, Robbie Fulford.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Elizabeth C. Driver, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee, State of Tennessee, Department of Children's Services.

Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court February 11, 2002.

OPINION

BEN H. CANTRELL, P.J., M.S., delivered the opinion of the court, in which WILLIAM B. CAIN and PATRICIA J. COTTRELL, joined.

This appeal stems from a petition by both a paternal aunt and the foster parents to adopt twenty-month-old twin girls. The trial court found that the paternal aunt should adopt the children because relatives have preference over non-relatives in adoption...

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