Wilson v. Wallace

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The question is this: When the widowed mother of an infant child remarries and later joins her second husband in obtaining a probate court decree by which he adopts the child, are the paternal grandparents of the child still entitled to obtain visitation privileges by a chancery court proceeding? The chancellor, recognizing the binding effect of the Court of Appeals decision in Hensley v. Wist, 270 Ark. 1004, 607 S.W. 2d 80 (Ark. App. 1980), answered the question in the affirmative and continued in force the existing visitation privileges of the appellees. We cannot…