BARNHILL v. ALFORD

315 Ga. 304

FINAL COPY S22A1075. BARNHILL et al. v. ALFORD. LAGRUA, Justice. In this appeal, we have been asked to decide whether a grandmother’s action for visitation rights to her biological granddaughter (the minor child of her deceased daughter) under OCGA § 19-7-3 — commonly known as the grandparent visitation statute — was precluded by the adoption of the child by her stepmother, and whether certain paragraphs of the grandparent visitation statute are unconstitutional, among other issues. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that (1) the grandmother was authorized to pursue an action…