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IN RE T.L.A.

No. A03-973.

677 N.W.2d 428 (2004)

In the Matter of Petitions to Adopt T.L.A. and T.E.A. and In the Matter of Children in Custody of the Commissioner of Human Services.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

April 6, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven V. Rose, BenePartum Law Group, PA, Minneapolis, MN, for appellants J.A. and S.A.

Steven L. Gawron, Gawron & Associates, P.A., Bloomington, MN; and Kevin P. Staunton, Staunton Law Group, P.L.L.C., Edina, MN, for respondent M.R.

Amy Klobuchar, Hennepin County Attorney, Nancy K. Jones, Assistant County Attorney, Minneapolis, MN, for respondent Hennepin County.

Jonathan G. Steinberg, Chrastil and Steinberg, P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, for Guardian Ad Litem.

Considered and decided by SHUMAKER, Presiding Judge; KALITOWSKI, Judge; and MINGE, Judge.

OPINION

MINGE, Judge.

Appellants, great-aunt and great-uncle of T.L.A. and T.E.A., challenge the commissioner's decision to withhold consent to their adoption of the children. Because Minnesota law allows a biological parent who relinquishes parental rights to direct that the commissioner not consider relatives as an adoptive placement, because the relative preference for adoptive placement is only one factor in determining a child's best interests, and...

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