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Article: COLUMN: Court rightfully puts cap on visitation rights suits
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- June 20, 2000
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Brieanne Porter
University Wire
06-20-2000
(The Battalion) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, there is one less worry for future parents. Recently, the court ruled that a Washington state law allowing any adult to sue a parent for child visitation rights was unconstitutional and "breathtakingly broad." The case that prompted the review involved Gary and Jenifer Troxel, grandparents who wanted to visit their two granddaughters despite objection from the girls' mother, Tommie Granville Wynn.
The Supreme Court ruling was justified because this law allowed anyone, not only relatives, to sue for visitation rights, and this law was the "long arm" of the American ...