In Re the Adoption of J.j.w.b.: J.b., Sr. and P.b. v. M.m.

Summary

The court resolved two consolidated interlocutory appeals arising from an adoption and a related grandparent-visitation dispute. It held that the grandmother’s motion to set aside the adoption was untimely and that she was not a necessary party whose lack of notice created a jurisdictional defect, but it held that the adoption did not automatically extinguish her existing visitation rights. The court therefore reversed and rendered dismissal of the adoption challenge, while affirming and remanding the visitation matter.