249 Mich. App. 388 - DeRose v. DeRose’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “This leads us to the question whether we could and should endeavor to interpret Michigan’s statute in a manner consistent with the constitution. However, such an effort would require a significant, substantive rewriting of the statute. To render the statute constitutional, we would have to read into it requirements that go beyond the text of the statute and do more than simply define the term “best interests of the child” more clearly. We would have to go from the judicial robing room to the legislative cloak room and we decline to do so. In short, the rewriting of the grandparent visitation statute is a task best left for the Legislature.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Linder v. Linder