Grandparents’ visitation blocked by appeals court

While this article does not mention Guardians ad litem it speaks to an issue that Guardians ad litem often recommend on.

While all of the details are not known - if we take on the surface just the fact that these Grandparents are being denied contact with their Grandchildren - is this really in the best interest of those children? These children are being denied contact with a part of their family that by all appearances love and nurture them. The courts state that the Grandparents have had minimal contact and as a result had no "viable relationship" with the children. At the same time it should be pointed out that the Grandparents were prevented from establishing any kind of "viable relationship". A catch 22 setup.

Daily Journal - Northest Mississippi News

JACKSON – A chancery judge was wrong to grant grandparents visitation rights with their daughter’s two children, the Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The case came from a November 2011 decision by Chancellor Talmadge Littlejohn in Itawamba County Chancery Court.

“By placing limitations on who may petition for visitation,” wrote Judge Jimmy Maxwell of Oxford for the court, “the criteria keep a grandparent’s statutory right to visitation from impermissibly encroaching on the parents’ rights to rear their children as they see fit.”

Dorothy and Jack Quartaro are the parents of Shassidy Aydelott, who is married to Adam Aydelott. The Aydelotts have one daughter, and Mrs. Aydelott has another daughter.

To say they do not have a good relationship “is an understatement,” Maxwell wrote in the 10-0 decision.

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