California Court of Appeal

Under Family Code section 3102, a court's presumption that allowing grandparents to visit a child is in the child's interests, where the parent is fit and has agreed to allow some visitation, violates the parent's fundamental parenting rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2001
• Published 03/16/2001

Judges

• HUFFMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and Charles A. Bird, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Trope and Trope, Thomas Paine Dunlap and Donna Beck Weaver, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent.