Schmidt v. Schmidt

*85WIEAND, Judge:*

Can a twenty-six year old woman, who is a victim of Down’s Syndrome and has the mental ability of a child between the ages of four and a half and eight years, be compelled by court order to visit a parent against her will? The trial judge concluded, in a thoughtful and concerned adjudication, that the daughter should be compelled to visit her father but only under circumstances carefully circumscribed by safeguards intended to protect her emotional and psychological well-being. Despite the care which the trial judge exercised in attempting to resolve this difficult issue, we…