Cabral v. Cabral

MARY RHODES RUSSELL, Judge.

Mary and Joseph Cabral, parents of a two-year-old female child, appeal from the judgment of the Cape Girardeau Circuit Court granting Linda and Robert Cabral, paternal grandparents, two hours of supervised visitation with child every three months.

Parents assert that Missouri’s grandparent visitation statute, section 452.402.2 RSMo (Cum.Supp.1998), infringes upon their fundamental liberty interests as protected by the U.S. Constitution. Parents also claim the trial court erred in failing to find that grandparents’ visitation would endanger child physically and…