Simmons v. Simmons

OPINION

REID, Justice.

This is a grandparents’ visitation case. It presents a dispute between the natural mother and adoptive father of a child presently five years old and the parents of the child’s natural father. The Court of Appeals, finding that there had been no change in circumstances, refused to terminate the court authorized visitation privileges of the parents of the natural father, upon the application of the mother and adoptive father. Because the principles of parental rights discussed in Hawk v. Hawk, 855 S.W.2d 573 (Tenn.1993), are also applicable to this case, the decision of…