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IN RE ADOPTION OF D.P.M.

90 S.W.3d 263 (2002)

In re the ADOPTION OF D.P.M.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

July 3, 2002.

Permission to Appeal Denied October 28, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Mabry, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the Appellants D.R.M. and P.E.M.

D. Vance Martin, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Appellees B.S.J. and S.J.

Wayne D. Wycoff, Knoxville, Tennessee, as Guardian Ad Litem.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, and Elizabeth C. Driver, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for the State of Tennessee.

Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court October 28, 2002.

OPINION

D. MICHAEL SWINEY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which HOUSTON M. GODDARD, P.J., and HERSCHEL P. FRANKS, J., joined.

This case started with competing petitions for adoption filed by the maternal and paternal grandparents of D.P.M., who is six years old. After the Trial Court terminated the parental rights of both natural parents on the basis of abandonment, the adoption...

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