In Re the Marriage of Bolson

NEUMAN, Justice.

In this case we address the issue of access to the district court by grandparents seeking a post-divorce adjudication of their grandparental visitation rights under Iowa Code section 598.35 (1985). We find that the trial court erred in sustaining a special appearance filed by the mother, thereby precluding the grandparents’ action under Chapter 598, but we remand with directions that these proceedings be stayed pending resolution in the juvenile court of the father’s petition to terminate his parental rights.

On April 2, 1985 a decree was entered dissolving the marriage between…