Legal Opinion
La Porte v. Rivers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 23, 1988PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Kane, J. P.
Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Clinton County (Feinberg, J.), entered February 23, 1987, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, for visitation with her grandchildren.
Petitioner commenced this proceeding against respondents seeking an order permitting her visitation with two of her grandchildren. Respondents are the children’s parents. Under Domestic Relations Law § 72, such visitation is permitted "where circumstances show that conditions exist which equity would see fit to intervene” and where it is in the…
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