Malinowski v. Farnam

Andrea Malinowski, mother of two children, ages eleven and nine, appeals from an order of the Bennington Family Court, modifying but not eliminating a grandparent visitation order in favor of the paternal grandparents, Luella and William Farnam, Sr. Mother challenges the constitutionality of Vermont’s grandparent visitation statutes, 15 V.S.A §§ 1011-1016. We decline to reach the constitutional challenge and affirm.

Mother and William Farnam, Jr., were married in 1990, and they were divorced in 1996 in New York, with mother receiving primary custody of their two children subject to father’s…