After two children were orphaned, their maternal grandfather and his wife filed a petition to adopt them. The paternal grandmother and her husband filed a petition to be appointed guardian, asserting that guardianship was preferable to adoption. The trial court concluded the maternal grandfather and his wife would be fit parents but found that it was in the children's best interest to have all grandparents involved in the children's lives. For that reason, the trial court denied the adoption petition, giving the maternal grandfather and his wife primary custody and giving the paternal grandmother liberal visitation. The First District Court upheld the ruling and the maternal grandfather and his wife appealed to this Court.