Rideout v. Riendeau

WATHEN, C.J., with whom RUDMAN, J., joins,

concurring.

[¶ 35] I concur in the result reached by the Court but write separately to distance myself from the curiously ambiguous and restricted conclusion “that the state does have a compelling interest in providing a forum within which grandparents who have acted as parents to their grandchild may seek continued contact with that child.” The District Court held that the Grandparents Visitation Act violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on its face because it requires no showing of harm to the child before a court can…