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I am back to blogging after a short break during my summer vacation. While I was away, the Appellate Division in the case Karr v. Black, denied a grandparent visitation with her grandchild. The Court upheld a lower court’s finding that an intact family’s’ refusal to permit a mentally ill grandmother to have visitation with their child was sound; because the grandmother had no relationship with the child, there was no need for further inquiry to determine whether visitation would be in the best interest of the child. In deciding this case, the court engaged in an extensive discussion of... More

The New York Law Journal (subscription required) reported that the parents of a victim of 9/11 were denied visitation with their grandchildren. I posted a couple of times in the recent past on the issue of grandparent visitation. According to the article in the Law Journal, after the death of the father, relations between the grandparents and the mother became strained and the mother limited the children’s visits with their grandparents. The Domestic Relations Law has provision for grandparents to seek visitation with grandchildren following the death of a parent. Visitation will be granted if it is found to be... More