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Alabama Grandparent Visitation Statute Held to be Unconstitutional
Posted on 16. Dec, 2011 by Alabama Divorce Lawyer, Jim Jeffries.
The Alabama Supreme Court held in June of this year that the State’s grandparent visitation statute (§30-3-4.1, Ala. Code 1975) is unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable. As a result, there may be no viable way for grandparents to obtain visitation rights with their grandchildren through a divorce court.
In Ex parte E.R.G., [Ms. 1090883, June 10, 2011] ___ So. [...]
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Recent Case Seems to Put Grandparent Rights in Question
Posted on 04. Apr, 2009 by Alabama Divorce Lawyer, Jim Jeffries.
The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals recently decided the case of C.D.P. v. D.P. and D.S.P. The case involved paternal grandparents who were seeking to have the Court award them visitation with their grandchild. The mother was opposed to unsupervised visitation. Their was no dispute that the grandparents had peviously been very active in the [...]