Bowen v. Bowen

I must respectfully dissent from the majority holding in this case.

| i.sThe majority notes that grandparents only have standing under the statute to seek visitation if the marriage of the parents has been severed. The majority then speculates that this requirement “must (at least in great part) be in response” to a concern that the custodial parent might bear animosity toward the noncustodial parent and/or grandparents, whereas when the marriage is intact, “the grandparents have a greater ‘voice’ in the situation because their own child is a player in the parenting paradigm.” The majority…