Grandparent Visitation
May 21, 2014OUTCOME: Grandparent Visitation Awarded to Paternal Grandmother
Parents have a constitutional right to raise their children as they deem appropriate. This includes the right for parents to decide whether their children are allowed to visit with their grandparents. ... A court may not intervene and order visitation for the grandparent unless it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the parent is not acting in the children's best interest when withholding visitation from a grandparent. My offices effectively demonstrated to the court that it was in the best interests of the minor children to visit with their grandmother and that the mother was not acting in her children's best interests when withholding visitation. Grandparent visitation was ordered and a grandmother was reunited with her grandchildren after over a year of no contact.
