Legal Opinion
In re R.A.
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided September 26, 2002No. 01CA1739PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge CASEBOLT.
In this adoption proceeding concerning the minor child, C.A., petitioners, R.A. and TA., the child's adoptive parents, appeal a declaratory judgment entered in favor of N.F. and AF., the child's paternal grandparents, upholding the constitutionality of the grandparent visitation statute, § 19-1-117, CRS. 2002. We affirm in part and remand for further proceedings.
The child's father died in 1994, and his mother died in 1997. Petitioners, his maternal aunt and uncle, were appointed as his guardians in 1997 pursuant to the mother's testamentary designation.
Following the…
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