In re the Visitation of Grant

This is an appeal from a judgment enforcing an order for grandparent visitation with a 10-year-old child. We reverse.

The child was born to Lane Grant and Alina Grant (mother), who were then husband and wife, on March 3, 1981. In May, 1982, the court dissolved the marriage and granted custody of the child to mother. In November, 1982, mother married Charles Keegan; the two raised the child as if he were their natural child. In January, 1990, Lane died. In June, 1990, Elery Grant, Lane’s father and the child’s paternal grandfather (petitioner), filed a petition for grandparent visitation…