Morton v. Tipton

OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE HUGHES

In this grandparent visitation case, David and Darlene Morton, custodial maternal grandfather and step-grandmother, challenge the trial court's award of limited grandparent visitation to Bruce Tipton, paternal grandfather. The Mortons maintain the trial court failed to apply the Walker "best interest of the child" factors and further failed to make the grandparent visitation determination based upon clear and convincing evidence, the standard enunciated in Walker. Although the trial court did not cite Walker v. Blair, 382 S.W.3d 862, 871 (Ky. 2012), we…