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Article: Visitation Rights To Be Decided
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- September 28, 1999
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RICHARD CARELLI, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
09-28-1999
Visitation Rights To Be Decided
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court set the stage Tuesday for an important ruling on grandparents' rights to see their grandchildren even when parents object -- a case that could affect laws in all 50 states.
The nine justices -- six of them with grandchildren of their own -- agreed to decide whether a state can give visitation rights to grandparents when, after a divorce or some other family split, the children's parents say no.
The case involves Washington state, where the state's highest court ruled that such a law violates parents' ``fundamental right'' to rear their families without ...