An American Fork woman is fighting to gain custody of her grandchild, while her drug-addict daughter is continuing on a “downward spiral,” according to an article scheduled to be published Tuesday in the Salt Lake Tribune.

The Utah Supreme Court decided to hear the case last week but gave no hint of when it will make a decision.

Seana Collins, a stocker at Walmart, claims she was never allowed a hearing and didn’t know the steps to adopt the boy she helped rear, after her daughter gave birth at the age of 14, the article said. The boy’s new family has filed for adoption.

One of the Supreme Court justices asked whether the juvenile court judge acted in the best interests of the child when he ignored a competing adoption petition, “particularly when it’s a relative,” he said.

The case stemmed back two years ago, when Ms. Collins called the police, as she worried that her daughter’s lifestyle of drugs and theft made her unsuitable to care for her then 3-year-old.

The Division of Child and Family Services got involved, saying that the home was no longer a safe place for the child, who was put in foster care.

While Ms. Collins is claiming she has been misled on how to file an adoption request, the adoptive family has grown to love the boy, the family’s attorney has said. “They love the child just as if he were their own.”

Still, Ms. Collins’ attorney, Sara Pfrommer, said that a grandparent’s right to be considered should be “absolute.”