Hamit v. Hamit

I. NATURE OF CASE

Tanya Hamit, appellant and the mother of Wyatt and Garrett Hamit, appeals from the order of the district court for Lincoln County, which concluded that Nebraska’s grandparent visitation statutes, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 43-1801 to 43-1803 (Reissue 2004), were not unconstitutional and awarded grandparent visitation to the children’s paternal grandparents, Carl and Linda Hamit, appellees. In this appeal, we are called on to determine, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 120 S. Ct. 2054, 147 L. Ed. 2d 49 (2000), whether Nebraska’s…