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Two Alabama grandparents have lost their bid to have court-ordered regular visits with their teenaged granddaughters.
21 Feb 12
By: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0221/Do-grandparents-get-visitation-rights-Supreme-Court-declines-case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday 02/21/12 declined to take up the grandparent’s appeal in a case testing when a judge can force objecting parents to permit regular visits between a grandparent and grandchildren. The high court action allows a decision of the Alabama Supreme Court to stand. The Alabama high court had ruled in favor of the parents who opposed court-intervention in the grandparent visitation dispute.
But what is less clear is how a judge is to rule when the child’s parents are opposed to such grandparent visitation. At issue in ERG v. EHG (11-311) was whether the fundamental right of parents to decide how best to raise their children includes the authority to deny grandparents an opportunity to visit with their grandchildren. The high court last examined the thorny issue of grandparent visitation in a 2000 case.
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