Bikos v. Nobliski

What effect does the adoption of a child have on the child’s grandparent’s suit to secure court-enforced visitation with the child pursuant to the grandparent visitation statute, MCL 722.27a; MSA 25.312(7a)? On this issue of first impression the lower court concluded that a grandparent could maintain an action for visitation under the statute, after adoption. We reverse.

Deborah Nobliski, born July 16, 1970, and Richard Nobliski, born June 16, 1972, were the two children born to defendant and Antoinette Nobli ski during their marriage. In April, 1975, Antoinette Nobliski died. Antoinette was…