Do grandparents have
visitation rights? Grandparents do not have absolute rights to visitation and there
are no uniform grandparent visitation laws. It all depends where the
grandparent resides. It varies from state to state and grandparents need a
lawyer to make their case. Want to take your case to the Supreme Court? That
already happened. Until 2000, grandparents had no rights due to the Parental
Rights Doctrine. Then, Washington state decided that grandparents could
overrule that doctrine. That changed in 2000 with the ruling of Troxel –vs-Granville,
where the justices were split on their decisions and no five-vote majority was
reached. It opened the door for each state to decide how to apply grandparent
rights.
References:
Adcox, S., Grandparent Visitation Rights by State. Verywell Family. 17 September 2019. Retrieved from https://www.verywellfamily.com/grandparent-visitation-rights-state-by-state-1695938
Parentalrights.org.
Retrieved from https://parentalrights.org/understand_the_issue/supreme-court/
ElderLawAnswers. 18 May
2020. Grandparent Visitation Rights. Retrieved from https://www.elderlawanswers.com/grandparent-visitation-rights-12130
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