Overholser (Taylor) v. Overholser

BRODY, Justice.

This appeal arises from the denial of standing to custodial grandparents under Idaho Code section 32-717(3). The mother placed her twelve-year-old son in the care of his grandparents on a full time basis in August 2017. Three months later the father petitioned the magistrate court to modify custody to grant him residential custody of his son. Although both Mother and Grandparents petitioned the court to give Grandparents residential custody, the magistrate court, during a hearing on father's motion for temporary custody, determined that Grandparents did not have standing.…