T.W. ex rel. R.W. v. T.H.

LAWRENCE E. MOONEY, Presiding Judge.

The mother, T.H., appeals the judgment entered by the Circuit Court of St. Louis County awarding, inter alia, third-party visitation with the child, T.W., to the maternal grandmother, C.H., on alternating weekends, alternating holidays, and every Christmas Day. We hold that the amount of visitation awarded the maternal grandmother impinges on the mother’s constitutional rights. Furthermore, because the maternal grandmother neither pleaded nor presented a claim at trial for third-party visitation with the child pursuant to section 452.375.5(5) RSMo.…