Ray v. Hannon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “1. The court may grant reasonable visitation rights to the grandparents of the child and issue any necessary orders to enforce the decree. The court may grant grandparent visitation when: (1) The parents of the child have filed for a dissolution of their marriage. A grandparent shall have the right to intervene in any dissolution action solely on the issue of visitation rights. Grandparents shall also have the right to file a motion to modify the original decree of dissolution to seek visitation rights when such rights have been denied to them; (2) One parent of the child is deceased and the surviving parent denies reasonable visitation rights; (3) A grandparent is unreasonably denied visitation with the child for a period exceeding ninety days; or (4) The child is adopted by a stepparent, another grandparent or other blood relative. 2. The court shall determine if the visitation by the grandparent would be in the child’s best interest or if it would endanger the child’s physical health or impair the child’s emotional development. Visitation may only be ordered when the court finds such visitation to be in the best interests of the child. The court may order reasonable conditions or restrictions on grandparent visitation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wills v. Wills

2. “[T]he initial ninety day denial of visitation requirement makes [section] 452.402.1(3) constitutional because it guarantees that a court "will not intrude upon the family for less than an egregious denial of visitation. The statute sets ninety days as the limit of permissible visitation denial after which point a court may intervene. It is therefore a type of “jurisdictional” waiting period, after ninety days without visitation an aggrieved party may gain access to the courts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blakely v. Blakely

3. “visitation should not be granted more frequently than once every ninety days and is to occur in the area of the child's residence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clay v. Clay