Van Koevering v. Van Koevering

Defendant appeals as of right from an order amending the judgment of divorce. He claims that the order, which concerns plaintiff’s visitation rights, violates the right of both himself and the parties’ two children to freely exercise their religion. US Const, Am I; Const 1963, art 1, § 4. We conclude that the state’s compelling interest in visitation justifies the trial court’s order. We affirm.

The parties were divorced in 1980. In 1982, the trial court granted custody of the two children to defendant and granted plaintiff visitation at her home for two days every two weeks. When defendant…