All persons required to be made parties in child custody proceedings or proceedings for the termination of parental rights shall be made parties to any proceeding in which a grandparent of a minor child or children seeks to obtain visitation rights with such minor child or children; and the court may, in its discretion, if it finds that such visitation rights would be in the best interest of the child, grant to a grandparent reasonable visitation rights with the child. Whenever visitation rights are granted to a grandparent, the court may issue such orders as shall be necessary to enforce such rights and may modify or terminate such visitation rights for cause at any time.
Miss. Code Ann. § 93-16-5
Parties to proceeding; discretion of court in granting, enforcing, modifying or terminating rights
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 693 So. 2d 924 - Scruggs v. Saterfiel (1997)
Most recently applied in 222 So. 3d 255 - Kimberly Wolfe Smith v. Milton Martin (April 2017)
Laws, 1983, ch. 497, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1983.
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