Curtis v. Coleman

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

The sole issue raised in this interlocutory appeal is whether a maternal grandmother can obtain court ordered visitation rights with her granddaughter pursuant to the provisions of Ind.Code 31-1-11.7-2. Under the facts of this case, we hold that she cannot.

The statute permits the court to order grandparent visitation in two instances; one where a parent is deceased and the other being where the parent’s marriage has been dissolved. Neither situation exists here.

As Judge Neal recently stated in the case of In Re: The Visitation of J.O., (1982) Ind.App., 441 N.E.2d…