Seagrave v. Price

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case again requires this court to examine the constitutionality of the Grandparental Visitation Rights Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 9-13-103 (Repl. 2002). We recently held that the statute was unconstitutional as applied in Linder v. Linder, 348 Ark. 322, 72 S.W.3d 841 (2002), basing our decision primarily on the United State Supreme Court’s plurality decision in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000). •

Becky Coburn Price and Jeff Price have a daughter, Ashley, who was born on May 6, 1996; the couple divorced on March 11, 1997, and Jeff was awarded visitation. Jeff continued…