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Committee advances narrower bill allowing limited modification of grandparent visitation orders
Summary
Senate Bill 245 was amended to narrow the circumstances under which grandparents who already hold visitation rights can seek modification: petitioning would be allowed only after a parent's death, incapacitation or incarceration. The committee voted to pass the substituted measure.
The House Judiciary Committee advanced a substitute to Senate Bill 245 that limits when grandparents with existing court-ordered visitation may petition to modify those rights.
Sponsor testimony and committee colloquy described the substitute as a narrowing: under the version the committee approved, a grandparent who has previously obtained visitation rights may seek a modification only if a parent dies, is…
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