
    In the Matter of a MINOR CHILD
    High Court of American Samoa Trial Division
    JUV No. 43-90
    November 15, 1990
    Before REES, Associate Justice, TAUANU'U, Chief Associate Judge, and MATA‘UTIA, Associate Judge.
    Counsel: For Petitioner, Robert A. Porter
   The child lives with her natural parents as well as the prospective adopting parent (her 64-year-old grandfather). The grandfather, who proposes to adopt the child, is a widower who will be almost eighty years of age by the time the child reaches the age of majority. It would not be in the best interest of the child to terminate the legal obligations of her thirty-year-old parents.

The petition for relinquishment is denied.  