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Grandparents and advocates urge changes to visitation law after testimony of alienation cases
Summary
House Bill 486 would expand circumstances for grandparent visitation to protect relationships when families separate but are not yet divorced; witnesses described prolonged alienation and urged courts be able to preserve meaningful bonds for children.
The Children and Family Law Committee heard extensive testimony on House Bill 486, which would amend New Hampshire's grandparent-visitation statute to clarify the circumstances that can support visitation and to recognize separate living arrangements as a basis for custody or continued access when parents are separated but not divorced.
Representative Joey Nelson, who introduced the bill, said he drafted the changes after receiving constituent accounts of long, costly proceedings and situations where grandparents were cut out of children's lives while divorce or reunification proceedings were ongoing. He said the bill adds "separate living arrangements" to the statute and clarifies the nature-of-relationship…
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