Gazaway v. Brackett

Hill, Justice.

This litigation involves the mother’s rights to visitation with her minor child, custody of whom was awarded to the child’s paternal grandparents in 1974, in the divorce action between the parents. That 1974 custody order granted the mother visitation with her daughter, then age three, only in the grandparents’ home. On May 18, 1977, the child’s mother filed a motion in the divorce action seeking modification of her visitation rights so as to allow her visitation with her daughter, by then age six, outside the grandparents’ home. Also on May 18, 1977, the grandparents filed a…