Gatliff v. Sisson

Mother appeals from the trial court’s judgment granting paternal grandparents’ (grandparents) petition for visitation with their grandson (child). She assigns error to the trial court’s findings that she unreasonably denied visitation and that visitation is in child’s best interests. We review de novo, ORS 19.415(3), and reverse.

Mother and father married in December 1993. Mother gave birth to child in April 1994. Mother and father initially lived together with child, and then mother and child lived with grandparents while father was incarcerated for an assault of a previous girlfriend.…