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From GrandparentVisitationBlog.com by Grant D. Griffiths, Attorney at Law
March 27, 2007
Supreme Court Won’t Review Grandparent Case
A
widowed father lost his bid Monday to have the Supreme Court decide
whether grandparents should have court-ordered visits with his son.
The
justices refused to get involved in the dispute between Shane Fausey, a
federal-prison guard in Pennsylvania, and his dead wife's mother.
Cheryl
Hiller won rulings in Pennsylvania courts giving her regular visits
with Fausey's son, Kaelen, over the father's objection.
Grandparents
do not have to prove that being kept away would be harmful to their
grandchildren in order to get court-ordered visitation, the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court said.
Fausey said the court ruling violated his constitutional right to make parenting decisions.
The
Supreme Court has never answered that constitutional question and state
courts are divided on the issue. Twelve states prohibit courts from
ordering grandparent visitation unless it can be shown that the child
would be harmed by their absence, Fausey's lawyers said in court papers.
The case is Fausey v. Hiller, 06-863.
Source for Post: NY Times
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