Aydelott v. Quartaro

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The right to grandparent visitation is purely statutory and may only be considered if the grandparent meets certain statutory criteria. The criteria in Mississippi’s grandparent-visitation statute are important. By placing limitations on who may petition for visitation, the criteria keep a grandparent’s statutory right to visitation from impermissibly encroaching on the parents’ rights to rear their children as they see fit.

¶ 2. Because we find Dorothy and Jack Quartaro failed to show they met the statutory criterion of the establishment of a viable relationship…