In Re Cifarelli

On December 10,1988, Anabelle Cifarelli’s parents and sister were asphyxiated in their Burlington home when a gas heating system malfunctioned. Anabelle, five months old at the time, survived and now lives with her maternal grandmother, Joan von Albrecht, in Bermuda. This controversy centers on the efforts by the paternal grandmother, Annamae Turull, who lives in Connecticut, to obtain visitation with Anabelle.

Mrs. Turull appeals a superior court decision vacating a probate order which conditioned Joan von Albrecht’s authority to consent to adoption on the allowance of “reasonable right of…