Adoption of S.S.

Filed 12/10/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

ADOPTION OF S.S. et al., Minors.

M.S. et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents,

A162155

v. T.S. et al., (San Mateo County Super. Ct. Defendants and Appellants. Nos. AD016393, AD016394)

The question before us is whether the trial court had the authority to amend final adoption orders to include a postadoption contact agreement that had not been properly presented to the adoption court for review and approval at the time the adoption petitions were granted. More than three years after adoption orders were entered for two siblings, the adoption agency and the children’s biological grandparents moved the court to amend the orders to include the postadoption contact agreement the grandparents and adoptive parents executed prior to the adoption. The contact agreement had not been provided to the adoption court and thus not considered or made part of the original adoption orders. The trial court determined, as a matter of law, that it had no jurisdiction to consider the motion to amend because the adoption court…