Peters v. Costello

My colleagues confer upon a couple, acting in loco parentis to a woman who is now well past the age of minority, standing to pursue court-ordered visitation of the woman’s daughter under the Grandparent Visitation Act. I respectfully dissent.

The question is whether appellees are entitled to the preferred status, conferred only by the statute, enjoyed by grand*120parents of children; as the majority notes, the narrow question before this Court is one of interpretation of that statute.

The Act does not define “grandparents,” it is true, but that word is hardly in need of definition. The term…